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CVE-2014-7829GHSA-H56M-VWXC-3QPW

Directory traversal vulnerability in actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/static.rb in Action Pack in Ruby on Rails 3.x before 3.2.21,

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 4.1.8, 3.2.21, 4.0.12, 4.2.0.beta4
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

Directory traversal vulnerability in actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/static.rb in Action Pack in Ruby on Rails 3.x before 3.2.21, 4.0.x before 4.0.12, 4.1.x before 4.1.8, and 4.2.x before 4.2.0.beta4, when serve_static_assets is enabled, allows remote attackers to determine the existence of files outside the application root via vectors involving a \ (backslash) character, a similar issue to CVE-2014-7818.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
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Affected versions

  • n/a n/a

    Version range not reported

  • actionpackRubyGems

    From 4.1.0 · fixed in 4.1.8

  • actionpackRubyGems

    From 3.0.0 · fixed in 3.2.21

  • actionpackRubyGems

    From 4.0.0 · fixed in 4.0.12

  • actionpackRubyGems

    From 4.2.0.beta1 · fixed in 4.2.0.beta4

References 4

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lists.opensuse.org

securityfocus.com

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