CVE-2015-7579

MEDIUM

rails-html-sanitizer < 1.0.2 - Cross-Site Scripting via HTML Entity Mishandling

Title source: llm

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.

References (9)

Core 9

Core References

Patch x_refsource_confirm

https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/commit/49dfc1584c5b8e35a4ffabf8356ba3df025e8d3f

Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=ruby-security-ann/OU9ugTZcbjc/uksRkSxZEgAJ

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178046.html

Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/25/12

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178064.html

Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00053.html

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034816

Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00024.html

Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00014.html

Scores

CVSS v3 6.1

EPSS 0.0017

EPSS Percentile 37.2%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

Details

CWE

CWE-79

Status published

Products (2)

rubygems/rails-html-sanitizer 0 - 1.0.3RubyGems

rubyonrails/html_sanitizer < 1.0.2

Published Feb 16, 2016

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026