GHSA-x2xw-hw8g-6773
govuk_tech_docs vulnerable to unescaped HTML on search results page
Quick fix
GHSA-x2xw-hw8g-6773 — govuk_tech_docs: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.
bundle update govuk_tech_docsDetails
### Impact
Pages that are indexed in search results have their entire contents indexed, including any HTML code snippets. These HTML snippets would appear in the search results unsanitised, so it was possible to render arbitrary HTML or run arbitrary scripts.
This is a low risk security issue; to exploit it, an attacker would need to find a way of committing malicious code to a page indexed by a site that uses tech-docs-gem (which are typically not editable by untrusted users). Their code would also be limited by the relatively short length that's rendered in the corresponding search result. Nevertheless, the XSS would then be triggerable by visiting a pre-constructed URL (/search/index.html?q=some+search+term), which users could be tricked into clicking on through social engineering.
### Patches
This has been fixed in v3.3.1. HTML is now sanitised in search results.
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References
- https://github.com/alphagov/tech-docs-gem/security/advisories/GHSA-x2xw-hw8g-6773[WEB]
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-22048[ADVISORY]
- https://github.com/alphagov/tech-docs-gem/pull/323[WEB]
- https://github.com/alphagov/tech-docs-gem/commit/a51c7058cec46bf2a4e25a1da62b14ac3fd46b53[WEB]
- https://github.com/alphagov/tech-docs-gem[PACKAGE]
- https://github.com/alphagov/tech-docs-gem/releases/tag/v3.3.1[WEB]
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/govuk_tech_docs/CVE-2024-22048.yml[WEB]