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CVE-2016-2097GHSA-VX9J-46RH-FQR8

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 ar

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published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 3.2.22.2, 4.1.14.2
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

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.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
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Affected versions

  • n/a n/a

    Version range not reported

  • actionviewRubyGems

    From 3.0.0 · fixed in 3.2.22.2

  • actionviewRubyGems

    From 4.0.0 · fixed in 4.1.14.2

  • actionpackRubyGems

    From 3.0.0 · fixed in 3.2.22.2

  • actionpackRubyGems

    From 4.0.0 · fixed in 4.1.14.2

References 8

lists.opensuse.org

debian.org

groups.google.com

securitytracker.com

securityfocus.com

weblog.rubyonrails.org