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CVE-2016-6316

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Publication date:
07/09/2016
Last modified:
12/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 3.x
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.10 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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

Base Score 3.x
6.10
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.30 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0
4.30
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.0.0:beta:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.0.0:beta2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.0.0:beta3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.0.0:beta4:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.0.0:rc:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.0.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.0.4:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.0.5:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.0.6:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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