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Low · 2.3 CVE-2026-73492 EUVD-2026-57629GHSA-5qhf-9phg-95m2

Loofah `allowed_uri?` does not detect `javascript:` URIs split by numeric character references without semicolons

Published Aug 12, 2026 · Updated Aug 14, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Loofah is a general library for manipulating and transforming HTML/XML documents and fragments, built on top of Nokogiri. From 2.25.0 until 2.25.2, Loofah::HTML5::Scrub.allowed_uri? does not reject javascript: or vbscript: URIs whose scheme is split by semicolon-less numeric character references such as &#58, &#9, &#10, or &#13. CGI.unescapeHTML leaves these references encoded, so allowed_uri? reports the URL safe even though a browser decodes an encoded colon or strips encoded whitespace and executes the resulting URI scheme. This issue affects only callers that pass HTML-encoded strings directly to allowed_uri?; Loofah's default sanitize() path is not affected. This issue is fixed in version 2.25.2.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
flavorjones loofah >= 2.25.0, < 2.25.2 —

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.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 ruby-loofah 2.25.2-1 —
Debian 13 ruby-loofah No fix yet —
Debian 12 ruby-loofah No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
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)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS ruby-loofah No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS ruby-loofah No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES for SAP 16.0 hawk2 2.7.2+git.1788518533.7d4dadd6-160000.1.1 SUSE-SU-2026:24250-1
SLES 16.0 hawk2 2.7.2+git.1788518533.7d4dadd6-160000.1.1 SUSE-SU-2026:24195-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed hawk2 2.7.2+git.1792148770.648dcddb-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:12153-1
openSUSE Leap 16.0 hawk2 2.7.2+git.1788518533.7d4dadd6-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:22068-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
RubyGems loofah >= 2.25.0, < 2.25.2 2.25.2 GHSA-5qhf-9phg-95m2

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