CVE-2026-33170

March 24, 2026, 6 p.m.

5.3
Medium

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.

Product(s) Impacted

Vendor Product Versions
Rubyonrails
  • Rails
  • *

Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

CWE-79
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users.

*CPE(s)

Affected systems and software identified for this CVE.

Type Vendor Product Version Update Edition Language Software Edition Target Software Target Hardware Other Information
a rubyonrails rails / / / / / / / /
a rubyonrails rails / / / / / / / /
a rubyonrails rails / / / / / / / /

References

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
https://github.com/rails/rails/security/advisories/GHSA-89vf-4333-qx8v

Tags

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CWE-79
2026-03-24
CVE-2026-33170

CVSS Score

5.3 / 10

CVSS Data - 4.0

  • Attack Vector: NETWORK
  • Attack Complexity: LOW
  • Attack Requirements: NONE
  • Privileges Required: NONE
  • User Interaction: PASSIVE
  • Scope:
  • Confidentiality Impact: NONE
  • Integrity Impact: LOW
  • Availability Impact: NONE
  • Exploit Maturity: NOT_DEFINED

    • 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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

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Timeline

Published: March 24, 2026, 12:16 a.m.
Last Modified: March 24, 2026, 6 p.m.

Status : Analyzed

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

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