Medium severity · published Sep 7, 2016
CVE-2016-6316
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…
6.1
CVSS
3.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)3.4% · higher than 89% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0 · source: NVD
RA
Rails · Rubyonrails
3.0.0; 3.0.0; 3.0.0; 3.0.0; 3.0.0; 3.0.0; +34 more · source: NVD
RO
Ruby ON Rails · Rubyonrails
3.0.4; 3.2.14; 3.2.14; 3.2.14; 3.2.15; 3.2.15; +14 more · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6316
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6316
rhn.redhat.com
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1855.html
rhn.redhat.com
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1856.html
rhn.redhat.com
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1857.html
rhn.redhat.com
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1858.html
Release Notes
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2016/8/11/Rails-5-0-0-1-4-2-7-2-and-3-2-22-3-have-been-released/
Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3651
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