CVE-2016-6316 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Reference

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

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

CHANGED

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

LOW

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

6.1