- Severity: MEDIUM
- CVE: CVE-2026-128069
- Ecosystems: rubygems
- Packages: rails-html-sanitizer
## Summary
`Rails::HTML::SafeListSanitizer` (both the HTML4 and HTML5 variants) shares one `Rails::HTML::PermitScrubber` across every `sanitize` call on the same instance, assigning its `tags` and `attributes` on each call without synchronization. Two concurrent `sanitize` calls with different `tags:` or `attributes:` options can interleave, so one call is scrubbed with the other call’s allowlist.
– Versions affected: `< 1.7.2`
– Not affected: none
– Fixed versions: `1.7.2`
## Impact
Action View memoizes a single `SafeListSanitizer` per helper module and uses it for every `sanitize` call in the process, so in a multi-threaded server (for example Puma) all requests share the same `PermitScrubber`. If any code path calls `sanitize` with a more permissive allowlist, an attacker who can trigger that path concurrently with another request can cause the other request to be sanitized with the permissive allowlist. If the permissive allowlist admits `script` or an event-handler attribute, the strict call emits it unchanged, which is a cross-site scripting vector when the strict output is stored or rendered to other users.
Applications are affected only if they run more than one thread per process and some `sanitize` call passes `tags:` or `attributes:` options that differ from another call’s, including a call that passes no options and so uses the defaults. Applications that use a single configuration everywhere, pass their own `scrubber:`, or run single-threaded are not affecte…
Source: GitHub Security Advisories · 2026-11-13