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CVE-2016-6316

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Date: September 7, 2016

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.

Language: Ruby

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Related Resources (18)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6316
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1858.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1855.html
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ruby-security-ann/8B2iV2tPRSE
https://web.archive.org/web/20200812154343/https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2016-6316
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3651
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.securityfocus.com/bid/92430
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1857.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/11/3
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1856.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/
https://web.archive.org/web/20200227202008/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92430
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://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/ruby-security-ann/8B2iV2tPRSE
https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2016-6316
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2016-6316

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

CWE-79

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CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): REQUIRED
Scope (S): CHANGED
Confidentiality (C): LOW
Integrity (I): LOW
Availability (A): NONE

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): MEDIUM
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): PARTIAL
Availability (A): NONE
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