Medium severity · published Feb 16, 2016
CVE-2015-7579
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…
6.1
CVSS
2.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.6% · higher than 85% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
HS
Html Sanitizer · Rubyonrails
through 1.0.2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-7579
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-7579
lists.fedoraproject.org
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178046.html
lists.fedoraproject.org
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178064.html
lists.opensuse.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00014.html
lists.opensuse.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00024.html
lists.opensuse.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00053.html
www.openwall.com
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/25/12
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