GHSA-r9c2-cr39-c8g6

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    GHSA-r9c2-cr39-c8g6

    Published: 24 Oct 2017Last Modified: 8 Nov 2023
    Aliases:
    CVE-2015-7579

    Summary: rails-html-sanitizer Cross-site Scripting vulnerability

    Details: 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: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-7579, https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/commit/49dfc1584c5b8e35a4ffabf8356ba3df025e8d3f, https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer, https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=ruby-security-ann/OU9ugTZcbjc/uksRkSxZEgAJ, https://web.archive.org/web/20160128075017/http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034816, 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

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: rails-html-sanitizer

    Purl: pkg:gem/rails-html-sanitizer

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.0.3

    Affected versions

    1.0.0
    1.0.1
    1.0.2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High