CVE-2015-7579

Summary

CVECVE-2015-7579
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2016-02-16 02:59:00 UTC
Updated2019-08-08 15:16:00 UTC
DescriptionCross-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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-79

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Rubyonrails Html Sanitizer All All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.2.0 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.2.0 beta1 All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.2.0 beta2 All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.2.0 beta3 All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.2.0 beta4 All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.2.0 rc1 All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.2.0 rc2 All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.2.0 rc3 All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.2.1 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.2.1 rc1 All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.2.1 rc2 All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.2.1 rc3 All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.2.1 rc4 All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.2.2 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.2.3 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.2.3 rc1 All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.2.4 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.2.4 rc1 All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.2.5 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.2.5 rc1 All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.2.5 rc2 All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.2.5.1 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.2.5.2 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.2.6 rc1 All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 5.0.0 beta1 All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 5.0.0 beta1.1 All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 5.0.0 beta2 All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 5.0.0 beta3 All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.2.0 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.2.0 beta1 All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.2.0 beta2 All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.2.0 beta3 All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.2.0 beta4 All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.2.0 rc1 All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.2.0 rc2 All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.2.0 rc3 All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.2.1 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.2.1 rc1 All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.2.1 rc2 All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.2.1 rc3 All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.2.1 rc4 All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.2.2 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.2.3 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.2.3 rc1 All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.2.4 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.2.4 rc1 All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.2.5 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.2.5 rc1 All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.2.5 rc2 All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.2.5.1 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.2.5.2 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.2.6 rc1 All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 5.0.0 beta1 All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 5.0.0 beta1.1 All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 5.0.0 beta2 All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 5.0.0 beta3 All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[ruby-security-ann] 20160125 [CVE-2015-7579] XSS vulnerability in rails-html-sanitizer MLIST groups.google.com
Do not unescape already escaped HTML entities · rails/rails-html-sanitizer@49dfc15 · GitHub CONFIRM github.com
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2016:0356-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org
Rails Multiple Bugs Let Remote Users Determine Passwords, Modify Records, Bypass Security Restrictions, Deny Service, and Conduct Cross-Site Scripting Attacks - SecurityTracker SECTRACK www.securitytracker.com
[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2016:1146-1: important: Security update for SUSE lists.opensuse.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: rubygem-rails-html-sanitizer-1.0.1-2.fc22 FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: rubygem-rails-html-sanitizer-1.0.3-1.fc23 FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2016:0391-1: important: Security update for SUSE lists.opensuse.org
oss-security - [CVE-2015-7579] XSS vulnerability in rails-html-sanitizer MLIST www.openwall.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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