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CVE-2018-8048
In the Loofah gem through 2.2.0 for Ruby, non-whitelisted HTML attributes may occur in sanitized output by republishing a crafted HTML…
Medium6.1EPSS 1.9%
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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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium6.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.9% · top 20% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.1.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- RubyGemsloofahGHSA-x7rv-cr6v-4vm4 (opens in a new tab)
- RubyGemsnokogiriGHSA-x7rv-cr6v-4vm4 (opens in a new tab)
References (4)
- https://github.com/flavorjones/loofah/issues/144 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20180319 [CVE-2018-8048] Loofah XSS Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- DSA-4171 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191122-0003/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-x7rv-cr6v-4vm4 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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