CVE-2026-33170
Rails Active Support has a possible XSS vulnerability in SafeBuffer#%
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 5.3 Medium
- Published
- Mar 23, 2026
- Updated
- Mar 25, 2026
- Reserved
- Mar 17, 2026
Description
Active Support is a toolkit of support libraries and Ruby core extensions extracted from the Rails framework. Prior to versions 8.1.2.1, 8.0.4.1, and 7.2.3.1, `SafeBuffer#%` does not propagate the `@html_unsafe` flag to the newly created buffer. If a `SafeBuffer` is mutated in place (e.g. via `gsub!`) and then formatted with `%` using untrusted arguments, the result incorrectly reports `html_safe? == true`, bypassing ERB auto-escaping and possibly leading to XSS. Versions 8.1.2.1, 8.0.4.1, and 7.2.3.1 contain a patch.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 5.3 Medium | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N | GitHub_M |
Weaknesses
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
activesupportrails |
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References
- https://github.com/rails/rails/security/advisories/GHSA-89vf-4333-qx8v
- https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/50d732af3b7c8aaf63cbcca0becbc00279b215b7
- https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/6e8a81108001d58043de9e54a06fca58962fc2db
- https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/c1ad0e8e1972032f3395853a5e99cea035035beb
- https://github.com/rails/rails/releases/tag/v7.2.3.1
- https://github.com/rails/rails/releases/tag/v8.0.4.1
- https://github.com/rails/rails/releases/tag/v8.1.2.1
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