CVE-2016-6316 in Ruby on Rails

Summary

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.

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• Reservation: 07/26/2016
• Disclosure: 09/07/2016
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: 1: VDB-91364
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-79 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 6.1
• EPSS: 0.01626
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6316
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6316
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2016-6316/