VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2015-7579
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.
MEDIUM 6.1EPSS 2.58%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.58%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
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.
- CVSS 3.0
- 6.1 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- EPSS
- 2.58% probability · 84th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Affected
- rubyonrails/html sanitizer
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- 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
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034816
- https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/commit/49dfc1584c5b8e35a4ffabf8356ba3df025e8d3f
- https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=ruby-security-ann/OU9ugTZcbjc/uksRkSxZEgAJ
- 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
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034816
- https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/commit/49dfc1584c5b8e35a4ffabf8356ba3df025e8d3f
- https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=ruby-security-ann/OU9ugTZcbjc/uksRkSxZEgAJ
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.