CVE-2015-7579

MEDIUM

rails-html-sanitizer 1.0.2 - XSS

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)

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

[Mailing List] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00014.html

[Mailing List] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00024.html

[Mailing List] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00053.html

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034816

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

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178046.html

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178064.html

[Mailing List] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/25/12

Scores

CVSS v3 6.1

EPSS 0.0017

EPSS Percentile 37.5%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

Classification

CWE

CWE-79

Status draft

Affected Products (2)

rubyonrails/html_sanitizer < 1.0.2

rubygems/rails-html-sanitizer < 1.0.3RubyGems

Timeline

Published Feb 16, 2016

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026