CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-2097
5.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-04-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/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 3.2.22.2 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.
Affected configurations
• 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
• rubyonrails rails 4.0.9
• rubyonrails rails 4.0.10
• rubyonrails rails 4.1.0
• rubyonrails rails 4.1.1
• rubyonrails rails 4.1.2
• rubyonrails rails 4.1.3
• rubyonrails rails 4.1.4
• rubyonrails rails 4.1.5
• rubyonrails rails 4.1.6
• rubyonrails rails 4.1.7
• rubyonrails rails 4.1.7.1
• rubyonrails rails 4.1.8
• rubyonrails rails 4.1.9
• rubyonrails rails 4.1.10
• rubyonrails rails 4.1.12
• rubyonrails rails 4.1.13
• rubyonrails rails 4.1.14
• rubyonrails ruby on rails (<= 3.2.22.1)
• rubyonrails ruby on rails 4.1.14.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00080.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00083.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00006.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2016/2/29/Rails-4-2-5-2-4-1-14-2-3-2-22-2-have-been-released/ Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3509 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83726 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035122 www.securitytracker.com
- https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=rubyonrails-security/ddY6HgqB2z4/we0RasMZIAAJ groups.google.com
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00080.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00083.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00006.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2016/2/29/Rails-4-2-5-2-4-1-14-2-3-2-22-2-have-been-released/ Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3509 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83726 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035122 www.securitytracker.com
- https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=rubyonrails-security/ddY6HgqB2z4/we0RasMZIAAJ groups.google.com