FKIE_CVE-2015-7578

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2016-02-16 02:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:32
Severity
6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Summary
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the rails-html-sanitizer gem before 1.0.3 for Ruby on Rails 4.2.x and 5.x allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted tag attributes.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178046.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178064.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00014.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00024.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00053.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/25/11
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034816
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/commit/297161e29a3e11186ce4c02bf7defc088bf544d4
secalert@redhat.comhttps://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=ruby-security-ann/uh--W4TDwmI/ygHE7hlZEgAJ
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178046.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178064.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00014.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00024.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00053.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/25/11
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034816
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/commit/297161e29a3e11186ce4c02bf7defc088bf544d4
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=ruby-security-ann/uh--W4TDwmI/ygHE7hlZEgAJ
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
rubyonrails html_sanitizer *
rubyonrails rails 4.2.0
rubyonrails rails 4.2.0
rubyonrails rails 4.2.0
rubyonrails rails 4.2.0
rubyonrails rails 4.2.0
rubyonrails rails 4.2.0
rubyonrails rails 4.2.0
rubyonrails rails 4.2.0
rubyonrails rails 4.2.1
rubyonrails rails 4.2.1
rubyonrails rails 4.2.1
rubyonrails rails 4.2.1
rubyonrails rails 4.2.1
rubyonrails rails 4.2.2
rubyonrails rails 4.2.3
rubyonrails rails 4.2.3
rubyonrails rails 4.2.4
rubyonrails rails 4.2.4
rubyonrails rails 4.2.5
rubyonrails rails 4.2.5
rubyonrails rails 4.2.5
rubyonrails rails 4.2.5.1
rubyonrails rails 4.2.5.2
rubyonrails rails 4.2.6
rubyonrails rails 5.0.0
rubyonrails rails 5.0.0
rubyonrails rails 5.0.0
rubyonrails rails 5.0.0
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