MEDIUM 6.1 RubyGems
rails-html-sanitizer Cross-site Scripting vulnerability
GHSA-r9c2-cr39-c8g6 · CVE-2015-7579
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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
- ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-7579
- WEB https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/commit/49dfc1584c5b8e35a4ffabf8356ba3df025e8d3f
- PACKAGE https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer
- WEB https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=ruby-security-ann/OU9ugTZcbjc/uksRkSxZEgAJ
- WEB https://web.archive.org/web/20160128075017/http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034816
- WEB http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178046.html
- WEB http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178064.html
- WEB http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00014.html
- WEB http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00024.html
- WEB http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00053.html
- WEB http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/25/12
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