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Status published
Medium
CVE-2015-7579
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the rails-html-sanitizer gem 1.0.2 for...
Vulnerability 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.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- 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.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00053.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034816
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/25/12
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178064.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00024.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00014.html
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Affected Vendor
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View all reports →Affected Software
html sanitizer
Vulnerable Versions:
0
Timeline
Official Publish:
February 16th, 2016
Last Modified:
August 6th, 2024
Added to House:
July 19th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
V3:
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.