CVE-2018-3741 (GCVE-0-2018-3741)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-03-30 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 04:50
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Summary
There is a possible XSS vulnerability in all rails-html-sanitizer gem versions below 1.0.4 for Ruby. The gem allows non-whitelisted attributes to be present in sanitized output when input with specially-crafted HTML fragments, and these attributes can lead to an XSS attack on target applications. This issue is similar to CVE-2018-8048 in Loofah. All users running an affected release should either upgrade or use one of the workarounds immediately.
Severity
6.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') (CWE-79)
Assigner
hackerone CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 60/100 over 214 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Rails rails-html-sanitizer Affected: <= 1.0.3
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Date Public
2018-03-30 00:00
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