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.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - 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. (CVE-2015-7579)

Security fix for CVE-2015-7578 CVE-2015-7579 CVE-2015-7580

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

This update for rubygem-rails-html-sanitizer fixes the following issues :

  - CVE-2015-7579: XSS vulnerability in rails-html-sanitizer     (bsc#963327)

  - CVE-2015-7578: XSS vulnerability via attributes     (bsc#963326)

  - CVE-2015-7580: XSS via whitelist sanitizer (bsc#963328)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
422262	SCA: security update for rails-html-sanitizer (GHSA-r9c2-cr39-c8g6)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	Local	medium
422262	SCA: security update for rails-html-sanitizer (GHSA-r9c2-cr39-c8g6)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	Local	medium
89549	Fedora 23 : rubygem-rails-html-sanitizer-1.0.3-1.fc23 (2016-59ce8b61dd)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	medium
89515	Fedora 22 : rubygem-rails-html-sanitizer-1.0.1-2.fc22 (2016-3a2606f993)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	medium
88606	openSUSE Security Update : rubygem-rails-html-sanitizer (openSUSE-2016-148)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	Local	medium

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CVE-2015-7579

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