Medium severity · published Mar 27, 2018
CVE-2018-8048
In the Loofah gem through 2.2.0 for Ruby, non-whitelisted HTML attributes may occur in sanitized output by republishing a crafted HTML fragment
6.1
CVSS
1.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
In the Loofah gem through 2.2.0 for Ruby, non-whitelisted HTML attributes may occur in sanitized output by republishing a crafted HTML fragment.
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)1.9% · higher than 80% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
9.0 · source: NVD
LO
Loofah · Loofah Project
before 2.2.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-8048
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-8048
Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/03/19/5
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/flavorjones/loofah/issues/144
security.netapp.com
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191122-0003/
Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4171
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