CVE-2026-126075

Active Support is a collection of utility classes and standard library extensions used by Rails and other Ruby projects. From 8.1 until 8.1.4.1, ActiveSupport::MessagePack serializes an ActiveSupport::SafeBuffer as its bytes alone and deserializes it as a new SafeBuffer, so a buffer that is no longer html_safe? (for example, one mutated in place with gsub!) is restored as html_safe. If such a buffer holds untrusted input and is stored through a MessagePack serializer, rendering it after it is loaded bypasses ERB auto-escaping, possibly leading to XSS. Applications on Rails 8.1 are affected if they use a MessagePack serializer, such as config.action_dispatch.cookies_serializer = :message_pack or :message_pack_allow_marshal, or serializer: :message_pack for Rails.cache, ActiveSupport::MessageVerifier or ActiveSupport::MessageEncryptor, and store a SafeBuffer that was mutated in place with untrusted input. Rails 8.0 and earlier do not serialize SafeBuffer with MessagePack and are not affected. This issue is fixed in version 8.1.4.1.

• https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/4ca090665976e6fbc471c38689b399f84b43cdc7
• https://github.com/rails/rails/releases/tag/v8.1.4.1
• https://github.com/rails/rails/security/advisories/GHSA-2w9f-fxwj-w2qf

• https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/4ca090665976e6fbc471c38689b399f84b43cdc7
• https://github.com/rails/rails/releases/tag/v8.1.4.1
• https://github.com/rails/rails/security/advisories/GHSA-2w9f-fxwj-w2qf

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• MEDIUMCVE-2014-125132PoC
• MEDIUMCVE-2015-20130PoC
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