Bug 1179870 (CVE-2012-6684) - CVE-2012-6684 rubygem-RedCloth: XSS vulnerability
Summary: CVE-2012-6684 rubygem-RedCloth: XSS vulnerability
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2012-6684
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1179872 1179873 1179874
Blocks: 1179871
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-01-07 17:16 UTC by Vincent Danen
Modified: 2021-10-20 10:48 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2021-10-20 10:48:12 UTC
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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]
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