Bug 1179870 – CVE-2012-6684 rubygem-RedCloth: XSS vulnerability

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Bug 1179870 - (CVE-2012-6684) CVE-2012-6684 rubygem-RedCloth: XSS vulnerability

Summary:	CVE-2012-6684 rubygem-RedCloth: XSS vulnerability

Status:	NEW

Aliases:	CVE-2012-6684

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1179874 1179872 1179873
Blocks:	1179871
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Reported:	2015-01-07 12:16 EST by Vincent Danen
Modified:	2018-06-29 18:03 EDT (History)
CC List:	7 users (show)

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Description Vincent Danen 2015-01-07 12:16:49 EST

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 12:20:44 EST

Created rubygem-RedCloth tracking bugs for this issue:

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

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