FreeBSD : Rails 4 -- Possible XSS Vulnerability in Action View (43f1c867-654a-11e6-8286-00248c0c745d)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 94081

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Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Ruby Security team reports :

There is a possible XSS vulnerability in Action View. Text declared as 'HTML safe' will not have quotes escaped when used as attribute values in tag helpers. This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2016-6316.

Solution

Update the affected package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 94081

File Name: freebsd_pkg_43f1c867654a11e6828600248c0c745d.nasl

Version: 2.5

Type: local

Family: FreeBSD Local Security Checks

Published: 10/17/2016

Updated: 1/21/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

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

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:rubygem-actionview, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/18/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/11/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-6316

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