Bug 1301920 (CVE-2015-7578) - CVE-2015-7578 rails-html-sanitizer: XSS vulnerability due to unremoved attributes from tags
Summary: CVE-2015-7578 rails-html-sanitizer: XSS vulnerability due to unremoved attrib...
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2015-7578
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1301921
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-01-26 11:44 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2021-02-17 04:26 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: rubygem-rails-html-sanitizer 1.0.3
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:47:49 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-01-26 11:44:58 UTC 
There is a possible XSS vulnerability in rails-html-sanitizer.  Certain
attributes are not removed from tags when they are sanitized, and these
attributes can lead to an XSS attack on target applications.

Upstream bug report:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rubyonrails-security/uh--W4TDwmI

External reference:

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2016/1/25/Rails-5-0-0-beta1-1-4-2-5-1-4-1-14-1-3-2-22-1-and-rails-html-sanitizer-1-0-3-have-been-released/
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2016-01-26 11:45:15 UTC 
Created rubygem-rails-html-sanitizer tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1301921]
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2016-02-28 08:29:09 UTC 
rubygem-rails-html-sanitizer-1.0.1-2.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2016-02-28 12:23:54 UTC 
rubygem-rails-html-sanitizer-1.0.3-1.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 5 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 02:47:49 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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