MEDIUM 6.1 RubyGems
Cross-site Scripting in loofah
GHSA-x7rv-cr6v-4vm4 · CVE-2018-8048
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Description
Loofah allows non-whitelisted attributes to be present in sanitized output when input with specially-crafted HTML fragments.
Users are affected if running Loofah < 2.2.1, but only:
- when running on MRI or RBX,
- in combination with libxml2 >= 2.9.2.
JRuby users are not affected.
References
- ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-8048
- WEB https://github.com/flavorjones/loofah/issues/144
- WEB https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/pull/1746
- WEB https://github.com/flavorjones/loofah/commit/f739cf8eac5851f328b8044281d6653f74eff116
- ADVISORY https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-x7rv-cr6v-4vm4
- WEB https://github.com/flavorjones/loofah
- WEB https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/loofah/CVE-2018-8048.yml
- WEB https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/nokogiri/CVE-2018-8048.yml
- WEB https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191122-0003
- WEB https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4171
- WEB http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/03/19/5
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