CVE-2016-6316

19

FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-6316 describes a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Ruby on Rails versions 3.x, 4.x, and 5.x, specifically within Action View, allowing attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via "HTML safe" text used in tag handler attribute values. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.1) has a low attack complexity and requires user interaction, potentially leading to limited impact on confidentiality and integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, no known public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and it is not listed in the KEV catalog, though it has received some community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		3.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.0.0:::::::*
		3.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.0.0:beta::::::
		3.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.0.0:beta2::::::
		3.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.0.0:beta3::::::
		3.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.0.0:beta4::::::

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.1MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/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

3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

3.44%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

87.7%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-27

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0344 is in the 94th percentile among its peer group of 26,221 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

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 (31)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 EUSFixed in: rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-0:4.1.5-6.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 EUSFixed in: ror40-rubygem-actionpack-1:4.0.2-8.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 EUSFixed in: ruby193-rubygem-actionpack-1:3.2.8-20.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-0:4.1.5-6.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: ror40-rubygem-actionpack-1:4.0.2-8.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: ruby193-rubygem-actionpack-1:3.2.8-20.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 EUSFixed in: rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-0:4.1.5-6.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 EUSFixed in: ror40-rubygem-actionpack-1:4.0.2-8.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 EUSFixed in: ruby193-rubygem-actionpack-1:3.2.8-20.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 EUSFixed in: rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-0:4.1.5-6.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 EUSFixed in: ror40-rubygem-actionpack-1:4.0.2-8.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 EUSFixed in: ruby193-rubygem-actionpack-1:3.2.8-20.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: rh-ror42-rubygem-actionpack-1:4.2.6-3.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: rh-ror42-rubygem-actionview-0:4.2.6-3.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: rh-ror42-rubygem-activerecord-1:4.2.6-3.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-0:4.1.5-6.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: ror40-rubygem-actionpack-1:4.0.2-8.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: ruby193-rubygem-actionpack-1:3.2.8-20.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 EUSFixed in: rh-ror42-rubygem-actionpack-1:4.2.6-3.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 EUSFixed in: rh-ror42-rubygem-actionview-0:4.2.6-3.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 EUSFixed in: rh-ror42-rubygem-activerecord-1:4.2.6-3.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 EUSFixed in: rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-0:4.1.5-6.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 EUSFixed in: ror40-rubygem-actionpack-1:4.0.2-8.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 EUSFixed in: ruby193-rubygem-actionpack-1:3.2.8-20.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 EUSFixed in: rh-ror42-rubygem-actionpack-1:4.2.6-3.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 EUSFixed in: rh-ror42-rubygem-actionview-0:4.2.6-3.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 EUSFixed in: rh-ror42-rubygem-activerecord-1:4.2.6-3.el7

rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa

Product: actionviewFixed in: 3.2.22.3

rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa

Product: actionviewFixed in: 4.2.7.1

rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa

Product: actionviewFixed in: 5.0.0.1

redhatno patchvia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset ManagerFixed in: ruby193-rubygem-actionpack

Vendor Advisories (2)

rubygemsGHSA-pc3m-v286-2jwjmedium

actionview Cross-site Scripting vulnerability

redhatCVE-2016-6316Moderate

rubygem-actionview: cross-site scripting flaw in Action View

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-1855.html

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-1856.html

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-1857.html

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-1858.html

groups.google.com / forum

puppet.com / security/cve/cve-2016-6316

weblog.rubyonrails.org / 2016/8/11/Rails-5-0-0-1-4-2-7-2-and-3-2-22-3-have-been-released

Release NotesVendor Advisory

debian.org / security/2016/dsa-3651

Third Party Advisory

openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2016/08/11/3

Third Party Advisory

securityfocus.com / bid/92430