CVE catalog
CVE-2015-7579
ruby-rails-html-sanitizer: CVE-2015-7579
- Severity
- Medium · CVSS 6.1
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N - Published
- Source
- [NVD] · [CVE record]
- EPSS
- 2.58% · Oct 25, 2026
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the rails-html-sanitizer gem 1.0.2 for Ruby on Rails 4.2.x and 5.x allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an HTML entity that is mishandled by the Rails::Html::FullSanitizer class.
Vulnerable and fixed packages
Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.
| Distribution | Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | ruby-rails-html-sanitizer | sid | 1.7.1-1 | fixed |
| Debian | ruby-rails-html-sanitizer | forky | 1.7.1-1 | fixed |
| Debian | ruby-rails-html-sanitizer | trixie | 1.6.2-1 | fixed |
| Debian | ruby-rails-html-sanitizer | bookworm | 1.4.4-1 | fixed |
Fixed-version evidence
| Distribution | Package | Type | Release | Fixed version | Urgency | Origin | Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | ruby-rails-html-sanitizer | source | sid | 1.0.3-1 | not yet assigned | Not reported | [812814] |
| Debian | ruby-rails-html-sanitizer | source | forky | 1.0.3-1 | not yet assigned | Not reported | [812814] |
| Debian | ruby-rails-html-sanitizer | source | trixie | 1.0.3-1 | not yet assigned | Not reported | [812814] |
| Debian | ruby-rails-html-sanitizer | source | bookworm | 1.0.3-1 | not yet assigned | Not reported | [812814] |
OpenFactory catalog packages
[Debian 12 (Bookworm)]
- [ruby-rails-html-sanitizer]Fixed
Details (2)
1.4.4-1· all · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
1.0.3-1dsa · ruby-rails-html-sanitizer · debian · bookworm; dsa · ruby-rails-html-sanitizer · debian · 12
1.4.4-1· all · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
1.0.3-1dsa · ruby-rails-html-sanitizer · debian · bookworm; dsa · ruby-rails-html-sanitizer · debian · 12
[Debian 13 (Trixie)]
- [ruby-rails-html-sanitizer]Fixed
Details (2)
1.6.2-1· all · trixieFixed · Fixed:
1.0.3-1dsa · ruby-rails-html-sanitizer · debian · 13
1.6.2-1· all · trixieFixed · Fixed:
1.0.3-1dsa · ruby-rails-html-sanitizer · debian · 13
Observed:
References
- [https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf/suse-su-2016_0391-1.json]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-7579]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7579]
- [https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-7579]
- [https://wid.cert-bund.de/.well-known/csaf/white/2016/wid-sec-w-2025-1085.json]
[CERT-Bund public advisories] · [Debian Security Tracker] · [FIRST EPSS] · [OSV Package Vulnerability Database] · [SUSE security advisories and VEX]