HIGH 7.5 RubyGems
Sanitize vulnerable to Improper Input Validation and Cross-site Scripting
GHSA-7f42-p84j-f58p · CVE-2018-3740
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Description
When Sanitize <= 4.6.2 is used in combination with libxml2 >= 2.9.2, a specially crafted HTML fragment can cause libxml2 to generate improperly escaped output, allowing non-whitelisted attributes to be used on whitelisted elements.
This can allow HTML and JavaScript injection, which could result in XSS if Sanitize's output is served to browsers.
References
- ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-3740
- WEB https://github.com/rgrove/sanitize/issues/176
- WEB https://github.com/rgrove/sanitize/commit/01629a162e448a83d901456d0ba8b65f3b03d46e
- WEB https://github.com/rgrove/sanitize/commit/93feeb38e21864146bb29191792b971dbe1ec62e
- WEB https://about.gitlab.com/2018/06/25/security-release-gitlab-11-dot-0-dot-1-released
- PACKAGE https://github.com/rgrove/sanitize
- WEB https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/sanitize/CVE-2018-3740.yml
- WEB https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4358
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