PT-2016-6822 · Ruby · Ruby On Rails

Andrew Carpenter · Published 2016-08-25 · Updated 2019-08-08 · CVE-2016-6316

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.1

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Ruby on Rails versions 3.x before 3.2.22.3 Ruby on Rails versions 4.x before 4.2.7.1 Ruby on Rails versions 5.x before 5.0.0.1

Description A cross-site scripting (XSS) issue in Action View in Ruby on Rails 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.

Recommendations For Ruby on Rails versions 3.x before 3.2.22.3, update to version 3.2.22.3 or later. For Ruby on Rails versions 4.x before 4.2.7.1, update to version 4.2.7.1 or later. For Ruby on Rails versions 5.x before 5.0.0.1, update to version 5.0.0.1 or later.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-6316

DLA-604-1

DSA-3651-1

GHSA-PC3M-V286-2JWJ

RHSA-2016:1855

RHSA-2016:1856

RHSA-2016:1857

RHSA-2016:1858

SUSE-SU-2017:2716-1

Affected Products

Ruby On Rails

References · 35

• 🔥 https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/actionpack/CVE-2016-6316.yml · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2017:2716-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-pc3m-v286-2jwj · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3651-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-3651-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6316 · Security Note
• http://debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3651 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6316 · Security Note
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1855.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/rails · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1857.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1856.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1858.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-6316 · Vendor Advisory
• http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2016/8/11/Rails-5-0-0-1-4-2-7-2-and-3-2-22-3-have-been-released · Vendor Advisory