Bug 1179870 (CVE-2012-6684)

Summary:	CVE-2012-6684 rubygem-RedCloth: XSS vulnerability
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Vincent Danen <vdanen>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	bkearney, carnil, cbillett, katello-bugs, mastahnke, tomckay
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	1179872, 1179873, 1179874
Bug Blocks:	1179871

Description Vincent Danen 2015-01-07 17:16:49 UTC

A Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability was reported [1],[2] in the RedCloth rubygem.  This has not been fixed upstream, but Redmine uses a copy of RedCloth and has a patch [3].

[1] https://gist.github.com/co3k/75b3cb416c342aa1414c
[2] http://co3k.org/blog/redcloth-unfixed-xss-en
[3] http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/repository/revisions/2212/diff/trunk/lib/redcloth3.rb

Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2015-01-07 17:20:44 UTC

Created rubygem-RedCloth tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1179872]
Affects: epel-5 [bug 1179873]
Affects: epel-6 [bug 1179874]