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CVE-2026-33168 Detail

Description

Action View provides conventions and helpers for building web pages with the Rails framework. Prior to versions 8.1.2.1, 8.0.4.1, and 7.2.3.1, when a blank string is used as an HTML attribute name in Action View tag helpers, the attribute escaping is bypassed, producing malformed HTML. A carefully crafted attribute value could then be misinterpreted by the browser as a separate attribute name, possibly leading to XSS. Applications that allow users to specify custom HTML attributes are affected. Versions 8.1.2.1, 8.0.4.1, and 7.2.3.1 contain a patch.


Metrics

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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST CVSS score
NIST: NVD
N/A
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Nist CVSS score does not match with CNA score
CNA:  GitHub, Inc.
CVSS-B 2.3 LOW
Vector:  CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/0b6f8002b52b9c606fd6be9e7915d9f944cf539c GitHub, Inc.
https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/63f5ad83edaa0b976f82d46988d745426aa4a42d GitHub, Inc.
https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/c79a07df1e88738df8f68cb0ee759ad6128ca924 GitHub, Inc.
https://github.com/rails/rails/releases/tag/v7.2.3.1 GitHub, Inc.
https://github.com/rails/rails/releases/tag/v8.0.4.1 GitHub, Inc.
https://github.com/rails/rails/releases/tag/v8.1.2.1 GitHub, Inc.
https://github.com/rails/rails/security/advisories/GHSA-v55j-83pf-r9cq GitHub, Inc.

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') GitHub, Inc.  

Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2026-33168
NVD Published Date:
03/23/2026
NVD Last Modified:
03/23/2026
Source:
GitHub, Inc.