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CVE-2015-7579

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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.

References

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mrhj-2g4v-39qx

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-r9c2-cr39-c8g6

https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=ruby-security-ann/OU9ugTZcbjc/uksRkSxZEgAJ

https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/commit/49dfc1584c5b8e35a4ffabf8356ba3df025e8d3f

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2017-0299

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034816

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/25/12

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00053.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00024.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00014.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178064.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178046.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-02-16

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.1

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00465

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