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Bug 1559071 - (CVE-2018-8048) CVE-2018-8048 rubygem-loofah: XSS vulnerability due to unescaped comments within attributes by libxml2
CVE-2018-8048 rubygem-loofah: XSS vulnerability due to unescaped comments wit...
Status: NEW
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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All Linux
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Assigned To: Red Hat Product Security
impact=moderate,public=20180315,repor...
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Depends On: 1560026 1560027 1560028 1559072 1559073 1560029
Blocks: 1559074
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Reported: 2018-03-21 12:16 EDT by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2018-05-17 04:06 EDT (History)
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Fixed In Version: rubygem-loofah 2.2.1
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Description Adam Mariš 2018-03-21 12:16:54 EDT
Loofah allows non-whitelisted attributes to be present in sanitized output when input with specially-crafted HTML fragments.

Affected versions: Loofah < 2.2.1, but only:

* when running on MRI or RBX,
* in combination with libxml2 >= 2.9.2.

Upstream bug:

https://github.com/flavorjones/loofah/issues/144

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/flavorjones/loofah/commit/f739cf8eac5851f328b8044281d6653f74eff116

Reference:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q1/253
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2018-03-21 12:17:21 EDT
Created rubygem-loofah tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1559072]
Comment 4 Kurt Seifried 2018-03-23 14:41:22 EDT
Statement:

This issue affects the versions of rubygem-loofah as shipped with Red Hat CloudForms 4. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having a security  impact of Moderate. A future update may address this issue. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/

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