CVE-2024-21636
view_component Cross-site Scripting vulnerability
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 6.1 Medium
- Published
- Jan 4, 2024
- Updated
- Jun 17, 2025
- Reserved
- Dec 29, 2023
Description
view_component is a framework for building reusable, testable, and encapsulated view components in Ruby on Rails. Versions prior to 3.9.0 and 2.83.0 have a cross-site scripting vulnerability that has the potential to impact anyone rendering a component directly from a controller with the view_component gem. Note that only components that define a `#call` method (i.e. instead of using a sidecar template) are affected. The return value of the `#call` method is not sanitized and can include user-defined content. In addition, the return value of the `#output_postamble` methodis not sanitized, which can also lead to cross-site scripting issues. Versions 3.9.0 and 2.83.0 have been released and fully mitigate both the `#call` and the `#output_postamble` vulnerabilities. As a workaround, sanitize the return value of `#call`.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 6.1 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N | GitHub_M |
Weaknesses
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
view_componentViewComponent |
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References
- https://github.com/ViewComponent/view_component/security/advisories/GHSA-wf2x-8w6j-qw37
- https://github.com/ViewComponent/view_component/pull/1950
- https://github.com/ViewComponent/view_component/pull/1962
- https://github.com/ViewComponent/view_component/commit/0d26944a8d2730ea40e60eae23d70684483e5017
- https://github.com/ViewComponent/view_component/commit/c43d8bafa7117cbce479669a423ab266de150697
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