CVE-2015-7579

CVSS V2 Medium 4.3 CVSS V3 Medium 6.1

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.

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2015-7579

Assigner
secalert@redhat.com

Vulnerability Status
Modified

Published Version
2016-02-16T02:59:03

Last Modified Date
2019-08-08T15:16:49

Weakness Enumerations

CWE	URL
CWE-79	http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/79.html

CPE Configuration (Product)

CPE	Vulnerable	Operator	Version End
		AND
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:html_sanitizer::::::ruby::*	1	OR	1.0.2
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:4.2.0:::::::*	0	OR
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:4.2.0:beta1::::::	0	OR
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:4.2.0:beta2::::::	0	OR
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:4.2.0:beta3::::::	0	OR
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:4.2.0:beta4::::::	0	OR
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:4.2.0:rc1::::::	0	OR
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:4.2.0:rc2::::::	0	OR
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:4.2.0:rc3::::::	0	OR
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:4.2.1:::::::*	0	OR
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:4.2.1:rc1::::::	0	OR
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:4.2.1:rc2::::::	0	OR
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:4.2.1:rc3::::::	0	OR
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:4.2.1:rc4::::::	0	OR
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:4.2.2:::::::*	0	OR
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:4.2.3:::::::*	0	OR
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:4.2.3:rc1::::::	0	OR
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:4.2.4:::::::*	0	OR
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:4.2.4:rc1::::::	0	OR
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:4.2.5:::::::*	0	OR
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:4.2.5:rc1::::::	0	OR
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:4.2.5:rc2::::::	0	OR
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:4.2.5.1:::::::*	0	OR
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:4.2.5.2:::::::*	0	OR
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:4.2.6:rc1::::::	0	OR
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:5.0.0:beta1::::::	0	OR
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:5.0.0:beta1.1::::::	0	OR
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:5.0.0:beta2::::::	0	OR
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:5.0.0:beta3::::::	0	OR

CVSS Version 2

Version
2.0

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

Access Vector
NETWORK

Access Compatibility
MEDIUM

Authentication
NONE

Confidentiality Impact
NONE

Integrity Impact
PARTIAL

Availability Impact
NONE

Base Score
4.3

Severity
MEDIUM

Exploitability Score
8.6

Impact Score
2.9

CVSS Version 3

Version
3.0

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK

Attack Compatibility
LOW

Privileges Required
NONE

User Interaction
REQUIRED

Scope
CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact
LOW

Availability Impact
NONE

Base Score
6.1

Base Severity
MEDIUM

Exploitability Score
2.8

Impact Score
2.7

References

Reference URL	Reference Tags
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/25/12
https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=ruby-security-ann/OU9ugTZcbjc/uksRkSxZEgAJ
https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/commit/49dfc1584c5b8e35a4ffabf8356ba3df025e8d3f
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00053.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178046.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178064.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00014.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00024.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034816

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-7579
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-7579

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2022-05-10 17:39:09				Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-02 08:23:50	2016-02-16T02:59Z	2016-02-16T02:59:03	CVE Published Date	updated
2022-12-02 08:23:50		2019-08-08T15:16:49	CVE Modified Date	updated
2022-12-02 08:23:50		Modified	Vulnerability Status	updated