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CVE-2022-27777

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-27777 is a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting Action View tag helpers in Ruby on Rails versions greater than or equal to 5.2.0 and less than 5.2.0, as well as related Debian packages. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.1) allows an attacker to inject malicious content if they can control input into specific attributes, requiring user interaction for successful exploitation. While the potential impact includes limited confidentiality and integrity compromise, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 5.2.7.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:actionpack:*:*:*:*:*:ruby:*:*
>= 6.0.0, < 6.0.4.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:actionpack:*:*:*:*:*:ruby:*:*
>= 6.1.0, < 6.1.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:actionpack:*:*:*:*:*:ruby:*:*
>= 7.0.0, < 7.0.2.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:actionpack:*:*:*:*:*:ruby:*:*
10.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.1MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
2.7
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.58%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
73.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0158 is in the 85th percentile among its peer group of 26,219 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (6)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Satellite 6.13 for RHEL 8Fixed in: tfm-rubygem-actionview-0:6.1.7-1.el8sat
View patch
rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: actionviewFixed in: 5.2.7.1
rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: actionviewFixed in: 6.0.4.8
rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: actionviewFixed in: 6.1.5.1
rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: actionviewFixed in: 7.0.2.4
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat 3scale API Management Platform 2Fixed in: actionview

Vendor Advisories (2)

rubygemsGHSA-ch3h-j2vf-95pvmedium

XSS Vulnerability in Action View tag helpers

Apr 27, 2022
redhatCVE-2022-27777Moderate

tfm-rubygem-actionview: Possible cross-site scripting vulnerability in Action View tag helpers

Apr 27, 2022

References

discuss.rubyonrails.org / t/cve-2022-27777-possible-xss-vulnerability-in-action-view-tag-helpers/80534
ExploitPatchVendor Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00002.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2023/dsa-5372