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SCA: security update for rails-html-sanitizer (GHSA-5x79-w82f-gw8w)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 411075

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - rails-html-sanitizer is responsible for sanitizing HTML fragments in Rails applications. Certain
 configurations of rails-html-sanitizer < 1.4.4 use an inefficient regular expression that is susceptible
 to excessive backtracking when attempting to sanitize certain SVG attributes. This may lead to a denial of
 service through CPU resource consumption. This issue has been patched in version 1.4.4. (CVE-2022-23517)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5x79-w82f-gw8w

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 411075

Version: Revision 1.8

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-23517

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/13/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/13/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-23517