Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting ruby-rails-html-sanitizer package, versions <1.4.4-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.12% (47th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-RUBYRAILSHTMLSANITIZER-3172432
  • published 15 Dec 2022
  • disclosed 14 Dec 2022

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable ruby-rails-html-sanitizer to version 1.4.4-1 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:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

rails-html-sanitizer is responsible for sanitizing HTML fragments in Rails applications. Versions >= 1.0.3, < 1.4.4 are vulnerable to cross-site scripting via data URIs when used in combination with Loofah >= 2.1.0. This issue is patched in version 1.4.4.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

6.1 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    Required
  • Scope (S)
    Changed
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    Low
  • Availability (A)
    None
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Red Hat

6.1 medium
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SUSE

7.1 high