Cross-site Scripting (XSS) The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package ruby-loofah  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1804-RUBYLOOFAH-613280
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed27 Mar 2018

Introduced: 27 Mar 2018

CVE-2018-8048  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ruby-loofah package and not the ruby-loofah package as distributed by Ubuntu.

In the Loofah gem through 2.2.0 for Ruby, non-whitelisted HTML attributes may occur in sanitized output by republishing a crafted HTML fragment.