CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-7829
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-11-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• opensuse opensuse 12.3
• opensuse opensuse 13.1
• opensuse opensuse 13.2
• rubyonrails rails 3.0.0
• rubyonrails rails 3.0.1
• rubyonrails rails 3.0.2
• rubyonrails rails 3.0.3
• rubyonrails rails 3.0.4
• rubyonrails rails 3.0.5
• rubyonrails rails 3.0.6
• rubyonrails rails 3.0.7
• rubyonrails rails 3.0.8
• rubyonrails rails 3.0.9
• rubyonrails rails 3.0.10
• rubyonrails rails 3.0.11
• rubyonrails rails 3.0.12
• rubyonrails rails 3.0.13
• rubyonrails rails 3.0.14
• rubyonrails rails 3.0.16
• rubyonrails rails 3.0.17
• rubyonrails rails 3.0.18
• rubyonrails rails 3.0.19
• rubyonrails rails 3.0.20
• rubyonrails rails 3.1.0
• rubyonrails rails 3.1.1
• rubyonrails rails 3.1.2
• rubyonrails rails 3.1.3
• rubyonrails rails 3.1.4
• rubyonrails rails 3.1.5
• rubyonrails rails 3.1.6
• rubyonrails rails 3.1.7
• rubyonrails rails 3.1.8
• rubyonrails rails 3.1.9
• rubyonrails rails 3.1.10
• rubyonrails rails 3.2.0
• rubyonrails rails 3.2.1
• rubyonrails rails 3.2.2
• rubyonrails rails 3.2.3
• rubyonrails rails 3.2.4
• rubyonrails rails 3.2.5
• rubyonrails rails 3.2.6
• rubyonrails rails 3.2.7
• rubyonrails rails 3.2.8
• rubyonrails rails 3.2.10
• rubyonrails rails 3.2.11
• rubyonrails rails 3.2.12
• rubyonrails rails 3.2.13
• rubyonrails rails 3.2.15
• rubyonrails rails 3.2.16
• rubyonrails rails 3.2.17
• rubyonrails rails 3.2.18
• rubyonrails rails 4.0.0
• rubyonrails rails 4.0.1
• rubyonrails rails 4.0.2
• rubyonrails rails 4.0.3
• rubyonrails rails 4.0.4
• rubyonrails rails 4.0.5
• rubyonrails rails 4.0.6
• rubyonrails rails 4.0.7
• rubyonrails rails 4.0.8
… and 15 more
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00112.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71183 www.securityfocus.com
- https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=rubyonrails-security/rMTQy4oRCGk/loS_CRS8mNEJ Exploit
- https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2014-7829 puppet.com
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00112.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71183 www.securityfocus.com
- https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=rubyonrails-security/rMTQy4oRCGk/loS_CRS8mNEJ Exploit
- https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2014-7829 puppet.com