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SCA: security update for actionview (GHSA-pc3m-v286-2jwj)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422732

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2016-6316)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pc3m-v286-2jwj

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 422732

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/29/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 8.67

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-6316

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/24/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/11/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-6316

BID: 92430

cwe: CWE-79