Crass is a Ruby CSS parser that is compliant with the CSS Syntax Level 3 specification. Prior to 1.0.8, Crass incorrectly treats a closing parenthesis after an escaped backslash as escaped while consuming the remnants of a bad URL. Crass therefore keeps declarations, style rules, or at-rules inside a bad URL token even though a browser treats them as live CSS. A sanitizer that parses untrusted CSS with Crass and reserializes it without rejecting the bad URL can allow CSS used for UI redress, external resource loading, or CSS-based data exfiltration, but this issue does not enable script execution in modern browsers. This issue is fixed in version 1.0.8.
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| Description | Crass is a Ruby CSS parser that is compliant with the CSS Syntax Level 3 specification. Prior to 1.0.8, Crass incorrectly treats a closing parenthesis after an escaped backslash as escaped while consuming the remnants of a bad URL. Crass therefore keeps declarations, style rules, or at-rules inside a bad URL token even though a browser treats them as live CSS. A sanitizer that parses untrusted CSS with Crass and reserializes it without rejecting the bad URL can allow CSS used for UI redress, external resource loading, or CSS-based data exfiltration, but this issue does not enable script execution in modern browsers. This issue is fixed in version 1.0.8. | |
| Title | Crass: Incorrect tokenization of bad URLs enables CSS sanitizer bypass | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-436 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-10-27T20:10:34.010Z
Reserved: 2026-10-26T20:00:59.831Z
Link: CVE-2026-116695
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-10-27T21:18:05.473
Modified: 2026-10-27T21:18:05.473
Link: CVE-2026-116695
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Updated: 2026-10-27T21:45:08Z
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