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.
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Affected Vendors & Products
Advisories
| Source | ID | Title |
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Debian DLA |
DLA-604-1 | ruby-actionpack-3.2 security update |
Debian DSA |
DSA-3509-1 | rails security update |
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 |
GHSA-vx9j-46rh-fqr8 | actionview contains Path Traversal vulnerability |
Fixes
Solution
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Workaround
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History
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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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Status : Deferred
Published: 2016-04-07T23:59:05.800
Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837
Link: CVE-2016-2097
OpenCVE Enrichment
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