CVE-2018-8048

22

FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-8048 describes a vulnerability in the Loofah gem for Ruby, affecting versions up to 2.2.0, where crafted HTML fragments could lead to non-whitelisted attributes appearing in sanitized output. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.1) has a low attack complexity and requires user interaction, potentially resulting in partial confidentiality and integrity impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		9.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:::::::*
		< 2.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:loofah_project:loofah::::::ruby::*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.1MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

NONE

Exploitability Score

2.8

Impact Score

2.7

CvssVersion

3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

1.98%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

78.5%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-26

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0198 is in the 89th percentile among its peer group of 26,219 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (78)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: wxGTK3-0:3.0.3-5.el7at

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: supervisor-0:3.1.4-1.el7

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: wmi-0:1.3.14-7.el7cf

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: ansible-runner-0:1.1.2-2.el7ar

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: ansible-tower-0:3.3.3-1.el7at

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: bubblewrap-0:0.1.7-1.el7

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: cfme-0:5.10.0.33-1.el7cf

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: cfme-amazon-smartstate-0:5.10.0.33-1.el7cf

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: cfme-appliance-0:5.10.0.33-1.el7cf

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: cfme-gemset-0:5.10.0.33-1.el7cf

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: dbus-api-service-0:1.0.1-5.el7cf

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: dumb-init-0:1.2.0-1.el7cf

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: erlang-0:19.3.6.7-1.el7at

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: google-compute-engine-0:2.0.0-2.el7cf

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: google-config-0:2.0.0-2.el7cf

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: httpd-configmap-generator-0:0.2.2-2.el7cf

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: nginx-1:1.10.2-1.el7at

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: ovirt-ansible-cluster-upgrade-0:1.1.8-1.el7ev

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: ovirt-ansible-disaster-recovery-0:1.1.2-1.el7ev

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: ovirt-ansible-engine-setup-0:1.1.5-1.el7ev

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: ovirt-ansible-image-template-0:1.1.8-1.el7ev

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: ovirt-ansible-infra-0:1.1.8-1.el7ev

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: ovirt-ansible-manageiq-0:1.1.12-1.el7ev

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: ovirt-ansible-repositories-0:1.1.2-1.el7ev

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: ovirt-ansible-roles-0:1.1.5-1.el7ev

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: ovirt-ansible-shutdown-env-0:1.0.0-1.el7ev

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: ovirt-ansible-v2v-conversion-host-0:1.6.3-1.el7ev

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: ovirt-ansible-vm-infra-0:1.1.10-1.el7ev

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: postgresql96-0:9.6.10-1PGDG.el7at

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: prince-0:9.0r2-10.el7cf

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: pyOpenSSL-0:17.3.0-4.el7ost

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: python-bambou-0:3.0.1-2.el7cf

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: python-colorama-0:0.3.7-2.el7ost

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: python-crypto-0:2.6.1-16.el7at

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: python-daemon-0:2.1.2-7.el7at

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: python-funcsigs-0:1.0.2-1.el7ost

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: python-future-0:0.16.0-1.el7cf

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: python-lockfile-1:0.11.0-10.el7at

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: python-meld3-0:0.6.10-1.el7

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: python-mock-0:2.0.0-1.el7ost

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: python-pbr-0:3.1.1-2.el7ost

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: python-pexpect-0:4.6-1.el7at

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: python-psutil-0:5.4.3-2.el7at

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: python-ptyprocess-0:0.5.2-3.el7at

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: python-pylxca-0:2.1.1-2.el7cf

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: python-pysocks-0:1.5.6-3.el7ost

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: python-requests-0:2.14.2-1.el7ost

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: python-requests-toolbelt-0:0.8.0-2.el7cf

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: python-tabulate-0:0.8.2-1.el7cf

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: python-urllib3-0:1.21.1-1.2.el7ost

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: python-vspk-0:5.3.2-2.el7cf

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: qpid-proton-0:0.19.0-1.el7cf

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: rabbitmq-server-0:3.7.4-1.el7at

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: rh-postgresql95-postgresql-pglogical-0:2.1.0-4.el7cf

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: rh-postgresql95-repmgr-0:4.0.6-2.el7cf

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: ruby-0:2.4.5-90.el7cf

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: rubygem-bcrypt-0:3.1.12-1.el7cf

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: rubygem-ffi-0:1.9.25-1.el7cf

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: rubygem-hamlit-0:2.8.8-1.el7cf

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: rubygem-http_parser.rb-0:0.6.0-1.el7cf

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: rubygem-json-0:2.1.0-1.el7cf

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: rubygem-linux_block_device-0:0.2.1-1.el7cf

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: rubygem-memory_buffer-0:0.1.0-2.el7cf

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: rubygem-nio4r-0:2.3.1-1.el7cf

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: rubygem-nokogiri-0:1.8.2-1.el7cf

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: rubygem-ovirt-engine-sdk4-0:4.2.4-1.el7cf

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: rubygem-pg-0:0.18.4-2.el7cf

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: rubygem-puma-0:3.7.1-1.el7cf

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: rubygem-qpid_proton-0:0.22.0-2.el7cf

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: rubygem-redhat_access_cfme-0:2.0.3-1.el7cf

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: rubygem-redhat_access_lib-0:1.1.4-2.el7cf

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: rubygem-rugged-0:0.27.4-1.el7cf

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: rubygem-sqlite3-0:1.3.13-2.el7cf

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: rubygem-unf_ext-0:0.0.7.5-1.el7cf

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Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: rubygem-websocket-driver-0:0.6.5-1.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: smem-0:1.4-1.el7cf

rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa

Product: nokogiriFixed in: 1.8.3

rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa

Product: loofahFixed in: 2.2.1

Vendor Advisories (2)

rubygemsGHSA-x7rv-cr6v-4vm4medium

Cross-site Scripting in loofah

redhatCVE-2018-8048Moderate

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

References

github.com / flavorjones/loofah/issues/144

Third Party Advisory

security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20191122-0003

debian.org / security/2018/dsa-4171

Third Party Advisory

openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2018/03/19/5

Mailing ListThird Party Advisory