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Security Advisories: MDE2OlNlY3VyaXR5QWR2aXNvcnlHSFNBLXI5YzItY3IzOS1jOGc2

rails-html-sanitizer Cross-site Scripting vulnerability

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.

Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-r9c2-cr39-c8g6
JSON: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories/MDE2OlNlY3VyaXR5QWR2aXNvcnlHSFNBLXI5YzItY3IzOS1jOGc2
Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: Moderate
Classification: General
Published: about 7 years ago
Updated: almost 2 years ago

CVSS Score: 6.1
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS Percentage: 0.00296
EPSS Percentile: 0.68867

Identifiers: GHSA-r9c2-cr39-c8g6, CVE-2015-7579
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

Repository: https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer
Blast Radius: 34.9

Affected Packages