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SCA: security update for rails-html-sanitizer (GHSA-px3r-jm9g-c8w8)
medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 422288
Description
There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:- There is a possible XSS vulnerability in all rails-html-sanitizer gem versions below 1.0.4 for Ruby. The
gem allows non-whitelisted attributes to be present in sanitized output when input with specially-crafted
HTML fragments, and these attributes can lead to an XSS attack on target applications. This issue is
similar to CVE-2018-8048 in Loofah. All users running an affected release should either upgrade or use one
of the workarounds immediately. (CVE-2018-3741)
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Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 422288
Version: Revision 1.4
Type: Local
Family: SCA Checks
Published: 3/28/2025
Updated: 7/2/2026
Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 2.3
Percentile: 8.69
Vendor
Vendor Severity: Medium
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4.3
Temporal Score: 3.2
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-3741
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.1
Temporal Score: 5.3
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 4/26/2018
Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/30/2018
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2018-3741
cwe: CWE-79