CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-2097

5.3 MEDIUM Published 2016-04-07 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
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