Bug 1559250 (CVE-2018-3740) - CVE-2018-3740 rubygem-sanitize: Improper filtering by libxml2 allows for cross-site scripting (XSS)
Summary: CVE-2018-3740 rubygem-sanitize: Improper filtering by libxml2 allows for cros...
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2018-3740
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1559251
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-03-22 04:53 UTC by Sam Fowler
Modified: 2021-02-17 00:37 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: rubygem-sanitize 4.6.3
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Last Closed: 2019-06-10 10:18:21 UTC
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Description Sam Fowler 2018-03-22 04:53:41 UTC 
rubygem-sanitize before version 4.6.3 is vulnerable to a HTML injection vulnerability when used with libxml2 from version 2.9.2. An attacker could exploit this to perfrom a cross-site scripting attack (XSS).


External References:

https://github.com/rgrove/sanitize/issues/176
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q1/254


Upstream Patch:

https://github.com/rgrove/sanitize/commit/01629a162e448a83d901456d0ba8b65f3b03d46e
Comment 1 Sam Fowler 2018-03-22 04:54:47 UTC 
Created rubygem-sanitize tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1559251]
Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-10 10:18:21 UTC 
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.
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