CVE-2016-6316

mediumpriority · track · 25EPSS 0.034 · 89 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

3.44% (89th) EPSS

CVSS 4.3 · medium

Is it mine?

136 products

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Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd · redhat_csaf

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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.

remediations

Vendor fix, mitigation, or workaround guidance, as published by each source.

A vendor fix is available.

Fixedrh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-0:4.1.5-6.el6.noarch as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)redhat_csaf
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 All running applications using rh-ror41-rubygem-actionviewmust be restarted for this update to take effect.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1856
Fixedrh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-0:4.1.5-6.el6.noarch as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.6)redhat_csaf
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 All running applications using rh-ror41-rubygem-actionviewmust be restarted for this update to take effect.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1856
Fixedrh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-0:4.1.5-6.el6.noarch as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.7)redhat_csaf
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 All running applications using rh-ror41-rubygem-actionviewmust be restarted for this update to take effect.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1856
Fixedrh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-0:4.1.5-6.el6.noarch as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)redhat_csaf
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 All running applications using rh-ror41-rubygem-actionviewmust be restarted for this update to take effect.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1856
Fixedrh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-0:4.1.5-6.el6.src as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)redhat_csaf
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 All running applications using rh-ror41-rubygem-actionviewmust be restarted for this update to take effect.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1856
Fixedrh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-0:4.1.5-6.el6.src as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.6)redhat_csaf
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 All running applications using rh-ror41-rubygem-actionviewmust be restarted for this update to take effect.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1856
Fixedrh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-0:4.1.5-6.el6.src as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.7)redhat_csaf
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 All running applications using rh-ror41-rubygem-actionviewmust be restarted for this update to take effect.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1856
Fixedrh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-0:4.1.5-6.el6.src as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)redhat_csaf
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 All running applications using rh-ror41-rubygem-actionviewmust be restarted for this update to take effect.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1856
Fixedrh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-0:4.1.5-6.el7.noarch as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)redhat_csaf
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 All running applications using rh-ror41-rubygem-actionviewmust be restarted for this update to take effect.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1856
Fixedrh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-0:4.1.5-6.el7.noarch as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.1)redhat_csaf
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 All running applications using rh-ror41-rubygem-actionviewmust be restarted for this update to take effect.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1856
Fixedrh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-0:4.1.5-6.el7.noarch as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.2)redhat_csaf
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 All running applications using rh-ror41-rubygem-actionviewmust be restarted for this update to take effect.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1856
Fixedrh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-0:4.1.5-6.el7.noarch as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)redhat_csaf
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 All running applications using rh-ror41-rubygem-actionviewmust be restarted for this update to take effect.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1856
Fixedrh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-0:4.1.5-6.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)redhat_csaf
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 All running applications using rh-ror41-rubygem-actionviewmust be restarted for this update to take effect.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1856
Fixedrh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-0:4.1.5-6.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.1)redhat_csaf
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 All running applications using rh-ror41-rubygem-actionviewmust be restarted for this update to take effect.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1856
Fixedrh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-0:4.1.5-6.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.2)redhat_csaf
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 All running applications using rh-ror41-rubygem-actionviewmust be restarted for this update to take effect.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1856
Fixedrh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-0:4.1.5-6.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)redhat_csaf
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 All running applications using rh-ror41-rubygem-actionviewmust be restarted for this update to take effect.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1856
Fixedrh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-doc-0:4.1.5-6.el6.noarch as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)redhat_csaf
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 All running applications using rh-ror41-rubygem-actionviewmust be restarted for this update to take effect.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1856
Fixedrh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-doc-0:4.1.5-6.el6.noarch as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.6)redhat_csaf
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 All running applications using rh-ror41-rubygem-actionviewmust be restarted for this update to take effect.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1856
Fixedrh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-doc-0:4.1.5-6.el6.noarch as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.7)redhat_csaf
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 All running applications using rh-ror41-rubygem-actionviewmust be restarted for this update to take effect.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1856
Fixedrh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-doc-0:4.1.5-6.el6.noarch as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)redhat_csaf
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 All running applications using rh-ror41-rubygem-actionviewmust be restarted for this update to take effect.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1856
Fixedrh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-doc-0:4.1.5-6.el7.noarch as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)redhat_csaf
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 All running applications using rh-ror41-rubygem-actionviewmust be restarted for this update to take effect.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1856
Fixedrh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-doc-0:4.1.5-6.el7.noarch as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.1)redhat_csaf
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 All running applications using rh-ror41-rubygem-actionviewmust be restarted for this update to take effect.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1856
Fixedrh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-doc-0:4.1.5-6.el7.noarch as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.2)redhat_csaf
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 All running applications using rh-ror41-rubygem-actionviewmust be restarted for this update to take effect.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1856
Fixedrh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-doc-0:4.1.5-6.el7.noarch as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)redhat_csaf
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 All running applications using rh-ror41-rubygem-actionviewmust be restarted for this update to take effect.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1856

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

6.1

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.04.3mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 2.9

v3.06.1mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.8 · impact 2.7

v2.04.3mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:Nsecondary · Red Hat Product Security US

v3.06.1mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:Nsecondary · OSV

v3.05.6mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

v3.06.1mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:Nsecondary · Red Hat Product Security US

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-79USprimaryCWE-79USCWE-79US

affected products (136)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
debian debian linux= 8.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubyonrails rails= 3.0.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubyonrails rails= 3.0.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubyonrails rails= 3.0.10nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubyonrails rails= 3.0.11nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubyonrails rails= 3.0.12nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubyonrails rails= 3.0.13nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubyonrails rails= 3.0.14nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubyonrails rails= 3.0.16nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubyonrails rails= 3.0.17nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubyonrails rails= 3.0.18nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubyonrails rails= 3.0.19nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubyonrails rails= 3.0.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubyonrails rails= 3.0.20nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubyonrails rails= 3.0.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubyonrails rails= 3.0.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubyonrails rails= 3.0.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubyonrails rails= 3.0.6nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubyonrails rails= 3.0.7nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

RHSA-2016:1856Red Hat Security Advisory: rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview security update2016-09-13csaf · redhat_csafUS
An update for rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview is now available for Red Hat Software Collections. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
GHSA-pc3m-v286-2jwjactionview Cross-site Scripting vulnerability2017-10-24ghsa · osvUS
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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sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd redhat_csaf osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2016-09-07modified 2026-06-17

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references (30)

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