Description
Loofah is a general library for manipulating and transforming HTML/XML documents and fragments, built on top of Nokogiri. From 2.21.0 until 2.25.3, Loofah's HTML5 APIs Loofah.html5_fragment, Loofah.html5_document, and the scrub_html5_* methods can emit sanitized output that a browser reparses as different markup when used with Nokogiri before 1.19.5, because those Nokogiri versions do not escape angle brackets in attribute values. MathML can place markup inside an allowed attribute so the reparsed output becomes live HTML. The :strip scrubber is affected in every browser, while :prune and :escape are affected in WebKit browsers. Loofah's HTML4 APIs, Loofah::Helpers.sanitize, :whitewash, rails-html-sanitizer's default configuration, and JRuby are not affected. This issue is fixed in version 2.25.3.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| flavorjones | loofah | >= 2.21.0, < 2.25.3 | — |
Fixed in Linux distributions
Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.
Ubuntu
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu 26.10 | ruby-loofah | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 26.04 LTS | ruby-loofah | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 24.04 LTS | ruby-loofah | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 22.04 LTS | ruby-loofah | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 20.04 LTS | ruby-loofah | No fix yet | — |
Show 2 more (older releases, extended support, other products)Fewer releases
| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu 18.04 LTS | ruby-loofah | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 16.04 LTS | ruby-loofah | No fix yet | — |
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RubyGems | loofah | >= 2.21.0, < 2.25.3 | 2.25.3 | GHSA-h6v6-rg66-fqj4 |
References
- https://github.com/flavorjones/loofah/security/advisories/GHSA-h6v6-rg66-fqj4
- https://github.com/flavorjones/loofah/pull/324
- https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/pull/3741
- https://github.com/flavorjones/loofah/commit/7ba1e7b77e043fb7dc832ef746fcbf83137135e6
- https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/commit/635abc8d65c75d594ddf8957fbfbfd822c2c0dbd
- https://github.com/flavorjones/loofah/releases/tag/v2.25.3
- https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/releases/tag/v1.19.5