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Apple Security Advisory 2022-12-13-4 - macOS Ventura 13.1 addresses bypass, code execution, out of bounds access, out of bounds write, spoofing, and use-after-free vulnerabilities.

The issue was addressed with improved bounds checks. This issue is fixed in iOS 16.2 and iPadOS 16.2, macOS Ventura 13.1, tvOS 16.2. Connecting to a malicious NFS server may lead to arbitrary code execution with kernel privileges.

rails-html-sanitizer is responsible for sanitizing HTML fragments in Rails applications. Prior to version 1.4.4, there is a possible XSS vulnerability with certain configurations of Rails::Html::Sanitizer due to an incomplete fix of CVE-2022-32209. Rails::Html::Sanitizer may allow an attacker to inject content if the application developer has overridden the sanitizer's allowed tags to allow both "select" and "style" elements. Code is only impacted if allowed tags are being overridden. This issue is patched in version 1.4.4. All users overriding the allowed tags to include both "select" and "style" should either upgrade or use this workaround: Remove either "select" or "style" from the overridden allowed tags. NOTE: Code is _not_ impacted if allowed tags are overridden using either the :tags option to the Action View helper method sanitize or the :tags option to the instance method SafeListSanitizer#sanitize.

## Summary There is a possible XSS vulnerability with certain configurations of Rails::Html::Sanitizer. This is due to an incomplete fix of CVE-2022-32209. - Versions affected: ALL - Not affected: NONE - Fixed versions: 1.4.4 ## Impact A possible XSS vulnerability with certain configurations of Rails::Html::Sanitizer may allow an attacker to inject content if the application developer has overridden the sanitizer's allowed tags to allow both "select" and "style" elements. Code is only impacted if allowed tags are being overridden using either of the following two mechanisms: 1. Using the Rails configuration `config.action_view.sanitized_allow_tags=`: ```ruby # In config/application.rb config.action_view.sanitized_allowed_tags = ["select", "style"] ``` (see https://guides.rubyonrails.org/configuring.html#configuring-action-view) 2. Using the class method `Rails::Html::SafeListSanitizer.allowed_tags=`: ```ruby # class-level option Rails::Html::SafeListSanitizer...

## Summary There is a possible XSS vulnerability with certain configurations of Rails::Html::Sanitizer. - Versions affected: ALL - Not affected: NONE - Fixed versions: 1.4.4 ## Impact A possible XSS vulnerability with certain configurations of Rails::Html::Sanitizer may allow an attacker to inject content if the application developer has overridden the sanitizer's allowed tags in either of the following ways: - allow both "math" and "style" elements, - or allow both "svg" and "style" elements Code is only impacted if allowed tags are being overridden. Applications may be doing this in four different ways: 1. using application configuration: ```ruby # In config/application.rb config.action_view.sanitized_allowed_tags = ["math", "style"] # or config.action_view.sanitized_allowed_tags = ["svg", "style"] ``` see https://guides.rubyonrails.org/configuring.html#configuring-action-view 2. using a `:tags` option to the Action View helper `sanitize`: ``` <%= saniti...

## Summary Loofah `< 2.19.1` contains an inefficient regular expression that is susceptible to excessive backtracking when attempting to sanitize certain SVG attributes. This may lead to a denial of service through CPU resource consumption. ## Mitigation Upgrade to Loofah `>= 2.19.1`. ## Severity The Loofah maintainers have evaluated this as [High Severity 7.5 (CVSS3.1)](https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.1#CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H). ## References - [CWE - CWE-1333: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity (4.9)](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/1333.html) - https://hackerone.com/reports/1684163 ## Credit This vulnerability was responsibly reported by @ooooooo-q (https://github.com/ooooooo-q).

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Web application firewalls from AWS, Cloudflare, F5, Imperva, and Palo Alto Networks are vulnerable to a database attack using the popular JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format.