CVE-2016-6316

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-09-07 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

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 products

Debian Linux: 8.0
Ruby on Rails: 3.0.0, 3.0.0-beta, 3.0.0-beta2, 3.0.0-beta3, 3.0.0-beta4, 3.0.0-rc (+195)
rubyonrails Ruby On Rails: 3.0.4, 3.2.14, 3.2.14-rc1, 3.2.14-rc2, 3.2.15-rc1, 3.2.15-rc2 (+14)

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1855.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1856.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1857.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1858.html
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2016/8/11/Rails-5-0-0-1-4-2-7-2-and-3-2-22-3-have-been-released/
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3651
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/11/3
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92430
https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/ruby-security-ann/8B2iV2tPRSE
https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2016-6316
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1855.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1856.html

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