MEDIUM6.1
GHSA-pc3m-v286-2jwj
actionview Cross-site Scripting vulnerability
Quick fix
GHSA-pc3m-v286-2jwj — actionview: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.
bundle update actionviewDetails
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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Affected packages
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6316[ADVISORY]
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/actionpack/CVE-2016-6316.yml[WEB]
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ruby-security-ann/8B2iV2tPRSE[WEB]
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rubyonrails-security/I-VWr034ouk[WEB]
- https://web.archive.org/web/20200227202008/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92430[WEB]
- https://web.archive.org/web/20200812154343/https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2016-6316[WEB]
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1855.html[WEB]
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1856.html[WEB]
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1857.html[WEB]
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1858.html[WEB]
- http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2016/8/11/Rails-5-0-0-1-4-2-7-2-and-3-2-22-3-have-been-released[WEB]
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3651[WEB]
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/11/3[WEB]