Answer in brief
CVE-2026-126075 records a Medium severity (CVSS 4.7) vulnerability in Active Support: Possible XSS vulnerability in Active Support MessagePack serializer. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. The current feed maps rails/rails (generic), activesupport (rubygems). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
Analysis pending evidence review
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CVSS is 4.7. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. Treat this as a source-backed prioritization signal, not a statement about your environment.
Analysis status
Analysis pending evidence review
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The current feed maps rails/rails (generic), activesupport (rubygems). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
| Package | Affected range | Fixed version |
|---|---|---|
| rails/railsgeneric | >=8.1 <8.1.4.1 | 8.1.4.1 |
| activesupportrubygems | >=8.1.0.beta1,<8.1.4.1 | 8.1.4.1 |
Published upstream
Nov 10, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordSource modified
Nov 10, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordFirst seen by HOL
Nov 10, 2026
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.
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