rails-html-sanitizer is responsible for sanitizing HTML fragments in Rails applications. Before 1.7.2, the HTML4 and HTML5 variants of Rails::HTML::SafeListSanitizer reuse one Rails::HTML::PermitScrubber across calls and mutate its tags and attributes without synchronization. In a multithreaded process, concurrent sanitize calls using different tags: or attributes: options can interleave and cause one call to use the other call's allowlist. If a permissive call admits a script element or event-handler attribute, output expected to be sanitized under a stricter policy can retain it and cause cross-site scripting when rendered. Applications that are single-threaded, use one identical allowlist everywhere, or provide a separate scrubber: are not affected. This issue is fixed in version 1.7.2.
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GHSA-h7wh-q2qr-458c | rails-html-sanitizer: Possible XSS via shared scrubber state in concurrent calls |
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Fri, 13 Nov 2026 17:30:00 +0000
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| Description | rails-html-sanitizer is responsible for sanitizing HTML fragments in Rails applications. Before 1.7.2, the HTML4 and HTML5 variants of Rails::HTML::SafeListSanitizer reuse one Rails::HTML::PermitScrubber across calls and mutate its tags and attributes without synchronization. In a multithreaded process, concurrent sanitize calls using different tags: or attributes: options can interleave and cause one call to use the other call's allowlist. If a permissive call admits a script element or event-handler attribute, output expected to be sanitized under a stricter policy can retain it and cause cross-site scripting when rendered. Applications that are single-threaded, use one identical allowlist everywhere, or provide a separate scrubber: are not affected. This issue is fixed in version 1.7.2. | |
| Title | rails-html-sanitizer: Possible XSS via shared scrubber state in concurrent calls | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-362 CWE-79 |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-11-13T17:17:47.954Z
Reserved: 2026-11-12T21:24:51.129Z
Link: CVE-2026-128069
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-11-13T18:17:34.757
Modified: 2026-11-13T18:17:34.757
Link: CVE-2026-128069
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OpenCVE Enrichment
Updated: 2026-11-14T09:00:08Z
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