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 fragment.

Published: 2018-03-27 Last update: 2024-11-21 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2018-8048 is rated Moderate Risk (49.3/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.69%). Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2018-8048

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-03-06 0.76% 0.69% -0.07%
2 2026-03-04 0.57% 0.76% +0.19%
3 2026-03-01 — 0.57% —

Full EPSS history (29 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2018-8048

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
6.1 3.0 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:C)
Breaking this can reach past the original component and bite other resources—bigger blast radius.
Confidentiality (C:L)
Some sensitive info could get out, but not a total data dump.
Integrity (I:L)
Attackers could change some data, but it’s limited—not everything goes.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
 2.8 2.7 [email protected]
4.3 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
 8.6 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2018-8048

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2018-8048

GHSA-x7rv-cr6v-4vm4 · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: rubygems — Cross-site Scripting in loofah

OS Trackers for CVE-2018-8048

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2018-8048 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (ruby-loofah), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-8048
redhat medium — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-8048
suse medium — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-8048/
ubuntu medium CVE-2018-8048 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (ruby-loofah), 7 status rows across 7 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, trusty, upstream, xenial): not-affected 3, ignored 2, DNE 1, released 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-8048

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2018-8048

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
debian debian_linux 9.0 cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
loofah_project loofah < 2.2.1 cpe:2.3:a:loofah_project:loofah:*:*:*:*:*:ruby:*:*

References for CVE-2018-8048

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