CVE-2016-6316: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 3.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Rubyonrails Rails: version 3.0.0 only; version 3.0.1 only; version 3.0.2 only; version 3.0.3 only; version 3.0.4 only; version 3.0.5 only; …
• Rubyonrails Ruby On Rails: version 3.0.4 only; version 3.2.14 only; version 3.2.15 only; version 3.2.19 only; version 3.2.20 only; version 3.2.22 only; …

Published 2016-09-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.