Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in Action View in Ruby on Rails before 3.2.22.1, 4.0.x and 4.1.x before 4.1.14.1, 4.2.x before 4.2.5.1, and 5.x before 5.0.0.beta1.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files by leveraging an application's unrestricted use of the render method and providing a .. (dot dot) in a pathname.
Published: 2016-02-16
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: 91.1% High
KEV: Yes
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-604-1 ruby-actionpack-3.2 security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3464-1 rails security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3509-1 rails security update
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-xrr4-p6fq-hjg7 Directory traversal vulnerability in Action View in Ruby on Rails
History

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Metrics kev

{'dateAdded': '2022-03-25'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'active', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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Debian Debian Linux
Opensuse Leap Opensuse
Redhat Rhel Software Collections Software Collections
Rubyonrails Rails
Suse Linux Enterprise Module For Containers
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2025-10-21T23:55:55.440Z

Reserved: 2015-12-16T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-0752

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-05T22:30:03.939Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2016-02-16T02:59:06.783

Modified: 2025-10-22T00:15:47.863

Link: CVE-2016-0752

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2016-01-25T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-0752 - Bugzilla

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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