actionview Cross-site Scripting vulnerability
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GHSA-pc3m-v286-2jwj
CVE-2016-6316
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
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable Versions | Patched Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| rubygems |
actionview
|
= 5.0.0>= 4.0.0, <= 4.2.7>= 3.0.0, <= 3.2.22.2 |
5.0.0.1
|
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Advisory Details
| Published: | October 24, 2017 over 8 years ago |
| Updated: | June 04, 2026 about 2 hours ago |
| CVSS Score: | 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
| EPSS: | 1.63% 82th percentile |
| Source: | Github |
| Classification: | GENERAL |
| UUID: | MDE2OlNlY3VyaXR5QWR2aXNvcnlHSFNBLXBjM20tdjI4Ni0yandq |
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6316
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ruby-security-ann/8B2iV2tPRSE
- 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
- https://web.archive.org/web/20200227202008/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92430
- https://web.archive.org/web/20200812154343/https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2016-6316
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/actionpack/CVE-2016-6316.yml
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rubyonrails-security/I-VWr034ouk
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pc3m-v286-2jwj