CVE-2016-6316
MEDIUM6.1EPSS 1.6%actionview Cross-site Scripting vulnerability
Published: 10/24/2017Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Action View in Ruby on Rails 3.x before 3.2.22.3, 4.x before 4.2.7.1, and 5.x before 5.0.0.1 might allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via text declared as "HTML safe" and used as attribute values in tag handlers.
Affected packages (3)
- Debian/railsfrom 0, < 2:4.2.7.1-1
- Debian/railsfrom 0, < 2:4.1.8-1+deb8u4
- RubyGems/actionview>= 3.0.0, < 3.2.22.3
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM6.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
References (14)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6316
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-6316
- WEBhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1855.html
- WEBhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1856.html
- WEBhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1857.html
- WEBhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1858.html
- WEBhttps://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/actionpack/CVE-2016-6316.yml
- WEBhttps://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rubyonrails-security/I-VWr034ouk
- WEBhttps://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ruby-security-ann/8B2iV2tPRSE
- WEBhttps://web.archive.org/web/20200227202008/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92430
- WEBhttps://web.archive.org/web/20200812154343/https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2016-6316
- WEBhttp://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2016/8/11/Rails-5-0-0-1-4-2-7-2-and-3-2-22-3-have-been-released
- WEBhttp://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3651
- WEBhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/11/3