CVSS 3.0
5.3 mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:NCVE-2016-2097
Medium (5.3) in rubyonrails. EPSS 4.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in actionview 3.2.22.2, 4.1.14.2.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 4.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 91% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-22
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- rubyonrails:rails
- rubyonrails:ruby_on_rails
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-vx9j-46rh-fqr8 | RubyGems | actionview | >=3.0.0 <3.2.22.2 | 3.2.22.2 |
| GHSA-vx9j-46rh-fqr8 | RubyGems | actionview | >=4.0.0 <4.1.14.2 | 4.1.14.2 |
| GHSA-vx9j-46rh-fqr8 | RubyGems | actionpack | >=3.0.0 <3.2.22.2 | 3.2.22.2 |
| GHSA-vx9j-46rh-fqr8 | RubyGems | actionpack | >=4.0.0 <4.1.14.2 | 4.1.14.2 |
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00080.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00083.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00006.html
- http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2016/2/29/Rails-4-2-5-2-4-1-14-2-3-2-22-2-have-been-released/
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3509