CVE-2015-7579 Information

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 Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Reference

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

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

CHANGED

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

LOW

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

6.1