CVE-2015-7578

Publication date 16 February 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the rails-html-sanitizer gem before 1.0.3 for Ruby on Rails 4.2.x and 5.x allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted tag attributes.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
ruby-rails-html-sanitizer	18.10 cosmic	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	17.10 artful	Ignored end of life
	17.04 zesty	Ignored end of life
	16.10 yakkety	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	15.10 wily	Ignored end of life
	15.04 vivid	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Not in release

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
ruby-rails-html-sanitizer	Upstream: https://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=145375052028672&w=2

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 6.1 · Medium

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Changed
Confidentiality impact	Low
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	None

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.1 · Medium
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N