Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting ruby-rails-html-sanitizer package, versions <1.0.3-1
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- published16 Feb 2016
- disclosed16 Feb 2016
Introduced: 16 Feb 2016
CVE-2015-7579 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Debian:9 ruby-rails-html-sanitizer to version 1.0.3-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ruby-rails-html-sanitizer package and not the ruby-rails-html-sanitizer package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.
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
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-7579
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178046.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178064.html
- https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/commit/49dfc1584c5b8e35a4ffabf8356ba3df025e8d3f
- https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=ruby-security-ann/OU9ugTZcbjc/uksRkSxZEgAJ
- 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