CVE-2016-2097

rubygem-actionpack: directory traversal in Action View, incomplete CVE-2016-0752 fix

Published Apr 7, 2016 CVSS 3.0 · 5.3 Medium EPSS 4.4% KEV · Not listed
Description
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.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

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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-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
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.05755}

epss

{'score': 0.02816}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
redhat
Published
Updated
Aug 5, 2024, 11:17 PM
Reserved
Jan 29, 2016, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Apr 7, 2016, 11:59 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 12:43 AM
Severity
Important
Public date
Feb 29, 2016, 12:00 AM