medium
6.1
CWE
79
Advisory Published
Advisory Published
Updated

CVE-2016-6316: XSS

First published: Wed Sep 07 2016(Updated: )

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.

Credit: secalert@redhat.com

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
rubygems/actionview=5.0.0
5.0.0.1
rubygems/actionview>=4.0.0<=4.2.7
4.2.7.1
rubygems/actionview>=3.0.0<=3.2.22.2
3.2.22.3
Ruby on Rails=3.0.0
Ruby on Rails=3.0.0-beta
Ruby on Rails=3.0.0-beta2
Ruby on Rails=3.0.0-beta3
Ruby on Rails=3.0.0-beta4
Ruby on Rails=3.0.0-rc
Ruby on Rails=3.0.0-rc2
Ruby on Rails=3.0.1
Ruby on Rails=3.0.2
Ruby on Rails=3.0.3
Ruby on Rails=3.0.4-rc1
Ruby on Rails=3.0.5
Ruby on Rails=3.0.5-rc1
Ruby on Rails=3.0.6
Ruby on Rails=3.0.6-rc1
Ruby on Rails=3.0.6-rc2
Ruby on Rails=3.0.7
Ruby on Rails=3.0.7-rc1
Ruby on Rails=3.0.7-rc2
Ruby on Rails=3.0.8
Ruby on Rails=3.0.8-rc1
Ruby on Rails=3.0.8-rc2
Ruby on Rails=3.0.8-rc3
Ruby on Rails=3.0.8-rc4
Ruby on Rails=3.0.9
Ruby on Rails=3.0.9-rc1
Ruby on Rails=3.0.9-rc2
Ruby on Rails=3.0.9-rc3
Ruby on Rails=3.0.9-rc4
Ruby on Rails=3.0.9-rc5
Ruby on Rails=3.0.10
Ruby on Rails=3.0.10-rc1
Ruby on Rails=3.0.11
Ruby on Rails=3.0.12
Ruby on Rails=3.0.12-rc1
Ruby on Rails=3.0.13
Ruby on Rails=3.0.13-rc1
Ruby on Rails=3.0.14
Ruby on Rails=3.0.16
Ruby on Rails=3.0.17
Ruby on Rails=3.0.18
Ruby on Rails=3.0.19
Ruby on Rails=3.0.20
Ruby on Rails=3.1.0
Ruby on Rails=3.1.0-beta1
Ruby on Rails=3.1.0-rc1
Ruby on Rails=3.1.0-rc2
Ruby on Rails=3.1.0-rc3
Ruby on Rails=3.1.0-rc4
Ruby on Rails=3.1.0-rc5
Ruby on Rails=3.1.0-rc6
Ruby on Rails=3.1.0-rc7
Ruby on Rails=3.1.0-rc8
Ruby on Rails=3.1.1
Ruby on Rails=3.1.1-rc1
Ruby on Rails=3.1.1-rc2
Ruby on Rails=3.1.1-rc3
Ruby on Rails=3.1.2
Ruby on Rails=3.1.2-rc1
Ruby on Rails=3.1.2-rc2
Ruby on Rails=3.1.3
Ruby on Rails=3.1.4
Ruby on Rails=3.1.4-rc1
Ruby on Rails=3.1.5
Ruby on Rails=3.1.5-rc1
Ruby on Rails=3.1.6
Ruby on Rails=3.1.7
Ruby on Rails=3.1.8
Ruby on Rails=3.1.9
Ruby on Rails=3.1.10
Ruby on Rails=3.1.12
Ruby on Rails=3.2.0
Ruby on Rails=3.2.0-rc1
Ruby on Rails=3.2.0-rc2
Ruby on Rails=3.2.1
Ruby on Rails=3.2.2
Ruby on Rails=3.2.2-rc1
Ruby on Rails=3.2.3
Ruby on Rails=3.2.3-rc1
Ruby on Rails=3.2.3-rc2
Ruby on Rails=3.2.4
Ruby on Rails=3.2.4-rc1
Ruby on Rails=3.2.5
Ruby on Rails=3.2.6
Ruby on Rails=3.2.7
Ruby on Rails=3.2.7-rc1
Ruby on Rails=3.2.8
Ruby on Rails=3.2.8-rc1
Ruby on Rails=3.2.8-rc2
Ruby on Rails=3.2.9
Ruby on Rails=3.2.9-rc1
Ruby on Rails=3.2.9-rc2
Ruby on Rails=3.2.9-rc3
Ruby on Rails=3.2.10
Ruby on Rails=3.2.11
Ruby on Rails=3.2.12
Ruby on Rails=3.2.13
Ruby on Rails=3.2.13-rc1
Ruby on Rails=3.2.13-rc2
Ruby on Rails=3.2.15
Ruby on Rails=3.2.15-rc3
Ruby on Rails=3.2.16
Ruby on Rails=3.2.17
Ruby on Rails=3.2.18
Ruby on Rails=3.2.21
Ruby on Rails=3.2.22.2
Ruby on Rails=4.0.0
Ruby on Rails=4.0.0-beta
Ruby on Rails=4.0.0-rc1
Ruby on Rails=4.0.0-rc2
Ruby on Rails=4.0.1
Ruby on Rails=4.0.1-rc1
Ruby on Rails=4.0.1-rc2
Ruby on Rails=4.0.1-rc3
Ruby on Rails=4.0.1-rc4
Ruby on Rails=4.0.2
Ruby on Rails=4.0.3
Ruby on Rails=4.0.4
Ruby on Rails=4.0.4-rc1
Ruby on Rails=4.0.5
Ruby on Rails=4.0.6
Ruby on Rails=4.0.6-rc1
Ruby on Rails=4.0.6-rc2
Ruby on Rails=4.0.6-rc3
Ruby on Rails=4.0.7
Ruby on Rails=4.0.8
Ruby on Rails=4.0.9
Ruby on Rails=4.0.10
Ruby on Rails=4.0.10-rc1
Ruby on Rails=4.1.0
Ruby on Rails=4.1.0-beta1
Ruby on Rails=4.1.0-beta2
Ruby on Rails=4.1.0-rc1
Ruby on Rails=4.1.0-rc2
Ruby on Rails=4.1.1
Ruby on Rails=4.1.2
Ruby on Rails=4.1.2-rc1
Ruby on Rails=4.1.2-rc2
Ruby on Rails=4.1.2-rc3
Ruby on Rails=4.1.3
Ruby on Rails=4.1.4
Ruby on Rails=4.1.5
Ruby on Rails=4.1.6
Ruby on Rails=4.1.6-rc1
Ruby on Rails=4.1.6-rc2
Ruby on Rails=4.1.7
Ruby on Rails=4.1.7.1
Ruby on Rails=4.1.8
Ruby on Rails=4.1.9
Ruby on Rails=4.1.9-rc1
Ruby on Rails=4.1.10
Ruby on Rails=4.1.10-rc1
Ruby on Rails=4.1.10-rc2
Ruby on Rails=4.1.10-rc3
Ruby on Rails=4.1.10-rc4
Ruby on Rails=4.1.12
Ruby on Rails=4.1.12-rc1
Ruby on Rails=4.1.13
Ruby on Rails=4.1.13-rc1
Ruby on Rails=4.1.14
Ruby on Rails=4.1.14-rc1
Ruby on Rails=4.1.14-rc2
Ruby on Rails=4.1.14.2
Ruby on Rails=4.1.15
Ruby on Rails=4.1.15-rc1
Ruby on Rails=4.1.16
Ruby on Rails=4.1.16-rc1
Ruby on Rails=4.2.0
Ruby on Rails=4.2.0-beta1
Ruby on Rails=4.2.0-beta2
Ruby on Rails=4.2.0-beta3
Ruby on Rails=4.2.0-beta4
Ruby on Rails=4.2.0-rc1
Ruby on Rails=4.2.0-rc2
Ruby on Rails=4.2.0-rc3
Ruby on Rails=4.2.1
Ruby on Rails=4.2.1-rc1
Ruby on Rails=4.2.1-rc2
Ruby on Rails=4.2.1-rc3
Ruby on Rails=4.2.1-rc4
Ruby on Rails=4.2.2
Ruby on Rails=4.2.3
Ruby on Rails=4.2.3-rc1
Ruby on Rails=4.2.4
Ruby on Rails=4.2.4-rc1
Ruby on Rails=4.2.5
Ruby on Rails=4.2.5-rc1
Ruby on Rails=4.2.5-rc2
Ruby on Rails=4.2.5.1
Ruby on Rails=4.2.5.2
Ruby on Rails=4.2.6
Ruby on Rails=4.2.6-rc1
Ruby on Rails=4.2.7
Ruby on Rails=4.2.7-rc1
Ruby on Rails=5.0.0-beta1
Ruby on Rails=5.0.0-beta1.1
Ruby on Rails=5.0.0-beta2
Ruby on Rails=5.0.0-beta3
Ruby on Rails=5.0.0-beta4
Ruby on Rails=5.0.0-rc1
Ruby on Rails=5.0.0-rc2
Ruby on Rails=3.0.4
Ruby on Rails=3.2.14
Ruby on Rails=3.2.14-rc1
Ruby on Rails=3.2.14-rc2
Ruby on Rails=3.2.15-rc1
Ruby on Rails=3.2.15-rc2
Ruby on Rails=3.2.19
Ruby on Rails=3.2.20
Ruby on Rails=3.2.22
Ruby on Rails=3.2.22.1
Ruby on Rails=4.0.10-rc2
Ruby on Rails=4.0.11
Ruby on Rails=4.0.11.1
Ruby on Rails=4.0.12
Ruby on Rails=4.0.13
Ruby on Rails=4.0.13-rc1
Ruby on Rails=4.1.11
Ruby on Rails=4.1.14.1
Ruby on Rails=5.0.0
Ruby on Rails=5.0.0-racecar1
Debian=8.0

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • What is the severity of CVE-2016-6316?

    CVE-2016-6316 is classified as a medium severity vulnerability due to its ability to facilitate cross-site scripting (XSS).

  • How do I fix CVE-2016-6316?

    To resolve CVE-2016-6316, update Action View in Ruby on Rails to version 3.2.22.3, 4.2.7.1, or 5.0.0.1 or later.

  • What does CVE-2016-6316 affect?

    CVE-2016-6316 affects Ruby on Rails versions 3.x before 3.2.22.3, 4.x before 4.2.7.1, and 5.x before 5.0.0.1.

  • What types of attacks can CVE-2016-6316 enable?

    CVE-2016-6316 can allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts or HTML into web applications.

  • Is CVE-2016-6316 present in older versions of Ruby on Rails?

    Yes, CVE-2016-6316 is present in multiple earlier versions of Ruby on Rails, primarily those before the specified remedial versions.

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