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Reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) In rails-html-sanitizer

Description

rails-html-sanitizer Cross-site Scripting vulnerability 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.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

Ecosystem
Component
Affected version
Patched versions

Aliases

1. CVE-2015-75792. NVD-2015-75793. OSV-2015-75794. OSV-DEBIAN-2015-75795. GCVE-2015-75796. SECURITY-TRACKER-CVE-2015-7579

References

1. https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/commit/49dfc1584c5b8e35a4ffabf8356ba3df025e8d3f2. https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=ruby-security-ann/OU9ugTZcbjc/uksRkSxZEgAJ3. https://web.archive.org/web/20160128075017/http://www.securitytracker.com/id/10348164. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178046.html5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178064.html6. http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00014.html7. http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00024.html8. http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00053.html9. http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/25/12

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