GitHub Advisoryadvisory · RubyGems
GHSA-h56m-vwxc-3qpw Directory traversal vulnerability in actionpack
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2014-7829
- Ecosystem
- RubyGems
- Packages
- actionpack
- Severity
- Moderate
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22
- Reviewed
- 2020-06-17
Affected packages
• RubyGems actionpack: >= 4.1.0, < 4.1.8 → fixed in 4.1.8
• RubyGems actionpack: >= 3.0.0, < 3.2.21 → fixed in 3.2.21
• RubyGems actionpack: >= 4.0.0, < 4.0.12 → fixed in 4.0.12
• RubyGems actionpack: >= 4.2.0.beta1, < 4.2.0.beta4 → fixed in 4.2.0.beta4
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.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2014-7829 Directory traversal vulnerability in actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/static.rb in Action Pack in Ruby on Rails 3.x before 3.2.21,… vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-7829 advisory
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h56m-vwxc-3qpw advisory
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/actionpack/CVE-2014-7829.yml web
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rubyonrails-security/rMTQy4oRCGk web
- https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=rubyonrails-security/rMTQy4oRCGk/loS_CRS8mNEJ web
- https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2014-7829 web
- https://web.archive.org/web/20160403085126/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71183 web
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00112.html web