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CVE-2016-6316

Published: 7 September 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.

Notes

AuthorNote
seth-arnold
In Oneiric-Saucy, rails package is just for transition;
The rails package contains actual code from vivid onward
mdeslaur
The GnuPG project used this CVE number by mistake when doing
an announcement. The GnuPG issue is actually CVE-2016-6313.

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.1

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
rails
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
artful Ignored
(end of life)
bionic Not vulnerable
(2:4.2.7.1-1)
cosmic Not vulnerable
(2:4.2.7.1-1)
disco Not vulnerable
(2:4.2.7.1-1)
precise Not vulnerable
(contains no code)
trusty Does not exist
(trusty was not-affected [contains no code])
upstream Needs triage

xenial Not vulnerable
(2:4.2.7.1-1)
yakkety Ignored
(end of life)
zesty Ignored
(end of life)
rails-4.0
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
zesty Does not exist

artful Does not exist

bionic Does not exist

cosmic Does not exist

disco Does not exist

precise Does not exist

trusty Does not exist
(trusty was needed)
upstream Needs triage

xenial Does not exist

yakkety Does not exist

ruby-actionpack-2.3
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
artful Does not exist

bionic Does not exist

cosmic Does not exist

disco Does not exist

precise Ignored
(end of life)
trusty Does not exist

upstream Ignored
(end of life)
xenial Does not exist

yakkety Does not exist

zesty Does not exist

ruby-actionpack-3.2
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
artful Does not exist

bionic Does not exist

cosmic Does not exist

disco Does not exist

precise Does not exist

trusty Does not exist
(trusty was needed)
upstream Needs triage

xenial Does not exist

yakkety Does not exist

zesty Does not exist

ruby-activemodel-3.2
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
artful Does not exist

bionic Does not exist

cosmic Does not exist

disco Does not exist

precise Does not exist

trusty Does not exist
(trusty was not-affected)
upstream Needs triage

xenial Does not exist

yakkety Does not exist

zesty Does not exist

ruby-activerecord-2.3
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
artful Does not exist

bionic Does not exist

cosmic Does not exist

disco Does not exist

precise Ignored
(end of life)
trusty Does not exist

upstream Ignored
(end of life)
xenial Does not exist

yakkety Does not exist

zesty Does not exist

ruby-activerecord-3.2
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
artful Does not exist

bionic Does not exist

cosmic Does not exist

disco Does not exist

precise Does not exist

trusty Does not exist
(trusty was not-affected [code not present])
upstream Needs triage

xenial Does not exist

yakkety Does not exist

zesty Does not exist

ruby-activesupport-2.3
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
artful Does not exist

bionic Does not exist

cosmic Does not exist

disco Does not exist

precise Ignored
(end of life)
trusty Does not exist

upstream Ignored
(end of life)
xenial Does not exist

yakkety Does not exist

zesty Does not exist

ruby-activesupport-3.2
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
artful Does not exist

bionic Does not exist

cosmic Does not exist

disco Does not exist

precise Does not exist

trusty Does not exist
(trusty was not-affected [code not present])
upstream Needs triage

xenial Does not exist

yakkety Does not exist

zesty Does not exist

ruby-rails-2.3
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
artful Does not exist

bionic Does not exist

cosmic Does not exist

disco Does not exist

precise Ignored
(end of life)
trusty Does not exist

upstream Ignored
(end of life)
xenial Does not exist

yakkety Does not exist

zesty Does not exist

ruby-rails-3.2
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
artful Does not exist

bionic Does not exist

cosmic Does not exist

disco Does not exist

precise Does not exist

trusty Does not exist
(trusty was needed)
upstream Needs triage

xenial Does not exist

yakkety Does not exist

zesty Does not exist

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.1
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Changed
Confidentiality Low
Integrity impact Low
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N