Cross-site Scripting (XSS) The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package ruby-activerecord-3.2  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-RUBYACTIVERECORD32-620221
  • published7 Sept 2016
  • disclosed7 Sept 2016

Introduced: 7 Sep 2016

CVE-2016-6316  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ruby-activerecord-3.2 package and not the ruby-activerecord-3.2 package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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.