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TI-2022-07574 Aliases CVE-2022-23515GHSA-228g-948r-83gx

Improper neutralization of data URIs may allow XSS in Loofah

Priority LOW 29CWE-79Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Cross-site scripting
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
Low · Low · None
Fix status
Partial Red Hat: 1 fixed, 2 without a fix

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA, GitHub and Red Hat. Impact type from CWE-79.

Summary

Loofah is a general library for manipulating and transforming HTML/XML documents and fragments, built on top of Nokogiri. Loofah >= 2.1.0, < 2.19.1 is vulnerable to cross-site scripting via the image/svg+xml media type in data URIs. This issue is patched in version 2.19.1.

Why it matters now

EPSS 0.00859 58th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Partial loofah (flavorjones): 2.19.1loofah (RubyGems): 2.19.1Red Hat: 1 advisoryRed Hat: 1 fixed, 2 without a fix

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
flavorjonesloofah2.1.0 to before 2.19.12.19.1Patch availableCNA
—loofah (RubyGems)2.1.0 to before 2.19.12.19.1Patch availableGHSA-228g-948r-83gx
  • loofah Vendorflavorjones Affected 2.1.0 to before 2.19.1 Fixed in 2.19.1 Patch available CNA
  • loofah (RubyGems) Vendor— Affected 2.1.0 to before 2.19.1 Fixed in 2.19.1 Patch available GHSA-228g-948r-83gx

CPE configurations NVD · 2

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:loofah_project:loofah:*:*:*:*:*:ruby:*:*2.1.0 to before 2.19.1Vulnerableflavorjones
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*10.0VulnerableDebian
  • cpe:2.3:a:loofah_project:loofah:*:*:*:*:*:ruby:*:* Versions 2.1.0 to before 2.19.1 Vulnerable ·flavorjones
  • cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 10.0 Vulnerable ·Debian

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA loofah (flavorjones) Fixed in 2.19.1
  • Fix · GHSA-228g-948r-83gx loofah (RubyGems) Fixed in 2.19.1 Advisory →

Red Hat 1 advisory

  • RHSA-2023:2097 Released 2023-05-03 · Red Hat rating Important
    Satellite 6.13 Release
    • Red Hat Satellite 6.13 for RHEL 8 ansible-collection-redhat-satellite-3.9.0-2.el8sat, ansible-collection-redhat-satellite_operations-1.3.0-2.el8sat, ansible-lint-5.0.8-4.el8pc +47

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

ProductStatusPlan or fix
Red Hat 3scale API Management Platform 2AffectedNo fix planned: Will not fix
Red Hat Satellite 6AffectedNo fix yet
Red Hat Satellite 6.13 for RHEL 8Fixed RHSA-2023:2097
Not affected: 1 product
  • Red Hat Satellite 6.13 for RHEL 8

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2022-23515
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-228g-948r-83gx

References

Advisory 5

Other 5

  • TI-2022-07573 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in Loofah CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2022-07575 Uncontrolled Recursion in Loofah CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2018-05825 In the Loofah gem through 2.2.0 for Ruby, non-whitelisted HTML attributes may occur in… CVSS 3.0MEDIUM 6.1
  • TI-2022-07577 Improper neutralization of data URIs allows XSS in rails-html-sanitizer CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.1
  • TI-2019-11687 Cross-site scripting in Loofah CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.4
  • TI-2018-11810 Cross-site scripting in Loofah CVSS 3.0MEDIUM 5.4

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