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CVE-2018-8048

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Date: March 27, 2018

In the Loofah gem through 2.2.0 for Ruby, non-whitelisted HTML attributes may occur in sanitized output by republishing a crafted HTML fragment.

Language: Ruby

Severity Score

6.1

Related Resources (14)

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/03/19/5

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

Url: https://github.com/flavorjones/loofah

Url: https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/loofah/CVE-2018-8048.yml

Url: https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/pull/1746

Url: https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191122-0003/

Url: https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/nokogiri/CVE-2018-8048.yml

Url: https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4171

Url: https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191122-0003

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

Url: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-x7rv-cr6v-4vm4

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-8048

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2018-8048

Url: https://www.mend.io/resources/blog/top-5-new-open-source-vulnerabilities-in-april-2018

Severity Score

6.1

Weakness Type (CWE)

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

CWE-79

Top Fix

Upgrade Version

Upgrade to version v2.2.1

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	6.1
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	REQUIRED
Scope (S):	CHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	LOW
Integrity (I):	LOW
Availability (A):	NONE

CVSS v2

Base Score:	4.3
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	NONE
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