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rubygem-loofah: XSS vulnerability due to unescaped comments within attributes by libxml2

Published Mar 27, 2018

Description

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.

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Red Hat statement

This issue affects the versions of rubygem-loofah as shipped with Red Hat CloudForms 4. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having a security impact of Moderate. This vulnerability won't be fixed on CloudForms 4, because it uses libxml 2.9.1 and since the vulnerability requires a libxml >= 2.9.2 in order to be exploitable. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/

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CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Mar 27, 2018
Updated Aug 5, 2024
Reserved Mar 11, 2018
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Moderate
Public date Mar 15, 2018
GHSA-X7RV-CR6V-4VM4