PT-2016-3817 · Ruby+1 · Rails-Html-Sanitizer+2

Tenderlove · Published 2016-02-07 · Updated 2026-03-13 · CVE-2015-7580

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.1

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions rails-html-sanitizer gem versions prior to 1.0.3 Ruby on Rails versions 4.2.x and 5.x

Description A cross-site scripting (XSS) issue allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted CDATA node. This is due to a vulnerability in the lib/rails/html/scrubbers.rb file in the rails-html-sanitizer gem.

Recommendations For rails-html-sanitizer gem versions prior to 1.0.3, update to version 1.0.3 or later. For Ruby on Rails versions 4.2.x and 5.x, ensure the rails-html-sanitizer gem is updated to version 1.0.3 or later.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-7580

GHSA-77PC-Q5Q7-QG9H

GHSA-GHQM-PGXJ-37GQ

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_0356-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10189-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11349-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:12145-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:13137-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14175-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2025:15125-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2026:10361-1

SUSE-SU-2016:0391-1

SUSE-SU-2016:1146-1

Affected Products

Ruby On Rails

Suse

Rails-Html-Sanitizer

References · 56

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:0391-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2025:15125-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-7580 · Security Note
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00024.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-7580 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-7580 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-7580 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:14175-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00053.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:13137-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-ghqm-pgxj-37gq · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2026:10361-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:1146-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2015-7580 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00014.html · Vendor Advisory