rails/rails-html-sanitizer · Security
rails-html-sanitizer Cross-site Scripting vulnerability
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-r9c2-cr39-c8g6
- CVE ID
- CVE-2015-7579
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 6.1 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 6.1 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the rails-html-sanitizer gem 1.0.2 for Ruby on Rails 4.2.x and 5.x allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an HTML entity that is mishandled by the Rails::Html::FullSanitizer class.
CWEs
- CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-7579 ↗
- https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/commit/49dfc1584c5b8e35a4ffabf8356ba3df025e8d3f ↗
- https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=ruby-security-ann/OU9ugTZcbjc/uksRkSxZEgAJ ↗
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178046.html ↗
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178064.html ↗
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00014.html ↗
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00024.html ↗
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00053.html ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/25/12 ↗
- https://web.archive.org/web/20160128075017/http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034816 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-r9c2-cr39-c8g6 ↗