CVE-2024-28199 HIGH

CVE-2024-28199: Cross-site Scripting (XSS) possible with maliciously formed HTML attribute names and values in Phlex

Vendor Phlex-Ruby
Product phlex
Weakness CWE-79 · XSS
Published March 11, 2024
Last update August 2, 2024

CVSS base score

7.1/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Confidentiality High
Integrity Low

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

phlex is an open source framework for building object-oriented views in Ruby. There is a potential cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability that can be exploited via maliciously crafted user data. This was due to improper case-sensitivity in the code that was meant to prevent these attacks. If you render an `<a>` tag with an `href` attribute set to a user-provided link, that link could potentially execute JavaScript when clicked by another user. If you splat user-provided attributes when rendering any HTML tag, malicious event attributes could be included in the output, executing JavaScript when the events are triggered by another user. Patches are available on RubyGems for all 1.x minor versions. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should consider configuring a content security policy that does not allow `unsafe-inline`.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

March 11, 2024 CVE published
August 2, 2024 Record updated