Directory traversal vulnerability in Action View in Ruby on Rails before 3.2.22.2 and 4.x before 4.1.14.2 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. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-0752.
Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-604-1 ruby-actionpack-3.2 security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3509-1 rails security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-0314 Directory traversal vulnerability in Action View in Ruby on Rails before 3.2.22.2 and 4.x before 4.1.14.2 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. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-0752.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-vx9j-46rh-fqr8 actionview contains Path Traversal vulnerability
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History

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.05755}

epss

{'score': 0.02816}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T23:17:50.576Z

Reserved: 2016-01-29T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-2097

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2016-04-07T23:59:05.800

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2016-2097

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2016-02-29T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-2097 - Bugzilla

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