Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.cosmic:def:20157579000
Revision Date:2016-02-15Version:1
Title:CVE-2015-7579 on Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) - medium.
Description: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.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2015-7579
Platform(s):Ubuntu 18.10
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) is installed.
  • AND NOT While related to the CVE in some way, the 'ruby-rails-html-sanitizer' package in cosmic is not affected (note: '1.0.3-2').
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