CVE-2024-32464 | ActionText ContentAttachment can Contain Unsanitized HTML

Action Text brings rich text content and editing to Rails. Instances of ActionText::Attachable::ContentAttachment included within a rich_text_area tag could potentially contain unsanitized HTML. This vulnerability is fixed in 7.1.3.4 and 7.2.0.beta2.

Published: 2024-06-04 Last update: 2024-11-21 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2024-32464 is rated Moderate Risk (42.4/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.28%). Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2024-32464

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-03-04 0.13% 0.28% +0.15%
2 2026-03-01 0.28% 0.13% -0.15%
3 2026-02-04 — 0.28% —

Full EPSS history (28 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2024-32464

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
6.1 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:C)
Breaking this can reach past the original component and bite other resources—bigger blast radius.
Confidentiality (C:L)
Some sensitive info could get out, but not a total data dump.
Integrity (I:L)
Attackers could change some data, but it’s limited—not everything goes.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
 2.8 2.7 [email protected]
6.1 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:C)
Breaking this can reach past the original component and bite other resources—bigger blast radius.
Confidentiality (C:L)
Some sensitive info could get out, but not a total data dump.
Integrity (I:L)
Attackers could change some data, but it’s limited—not everything goes.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
 2.8 2.7 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2024-32464

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2024-32464

GHSA-prjp-h48f-jgf6 · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: rubygems — ActionText ContentAttachment can Contain Unsanitized HTML

OS Trackers for CVE-2024-32464

vendor priority summary link
debian unimportant CVE-2024-32464 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (rails), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-32464
ubuntu medium CVE-2024-32464 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (rails), 10 status rows across 10 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, upstream, xenial): needs-triage 7, ignored 3. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-32464

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2024-32464

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
rubyonrails rails >= 7.1.0, < 7.1.3.4 cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubyonrails rails 7.2.0 cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:7.2.0:beta1:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2024-32464

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