CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-0752

7.5 HIGH Known exploited Published 2016-02-16 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability

Ruby on Rails Directory Traversal Vulnerability — Rails Ruby on Rails

Directory traversal vulnerability in Action View in Ruby on Rails allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files.

Added to KEV
2022-03-25
Remediation due
2022-04-15
Ransomware use
Unknown
Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-0752
Status
Analyzed
Published
2016-02-16
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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 Action View in Ruby on Rails before 3.2.22.1, 4.0.x and 4.1.x before 4.1.14.1, 4.2.x before 4.2.5.1, and 5.x before 5.0.0.beta1.1 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.

Affected configurations

• rubyonrails rails (< 3.2.22.1) • rubyonrails rails (>= 4.0.0 < 4.1.14.1) • rubyonrails rails (>= 4.2.0 < 4.2.5.1) • rubyonrails rails 5.0.0 • opensuse leap 42.1 • opensuse opensuse 13.2 • suse linux enterprise module for containers 12 • debian debian linux 8.0 • redhat software collections 1.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness

References