Vulnerability CVE-2016-6316
Published: 2016-09-07

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.

Type:

CWE-79

 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
Rubyonrails -> Ruby on rails 
Rubyonrails -> Rails 
Debian -> Debian linux 

 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/#!topic/ruby-security-ann/8B2iV2tPRSE
https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2016-6316
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