High severity · published Feb 16, 2016
CVE-2016-0752
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…
In wildKEV
7.5
CVSS
95.5%
EPSS
Yes
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)95.5% · higher than 100% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildYes
CISA KEVListed Mar 25, 2022
Federal remediation dueApr 15, 2022
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0 · source: NVD
LE
Leap · Opensuse
42.1 · source: NVD
LE
Linux Enterprise Module For Containers · Suse
12 · source: NVD
OP
Opensuse · Opensuse
13.2 · source: NVD
RA
Rails · Rubyonrails
before 3.2.22.1; 4.0.0 before 4.1.14.1; 4.2.0 before 4.2.5.1; 5.0.0 · source: NVD
SC
Software Collections · Redhat
1.0 · source: NVD
RO
Ruby on Rails · Rails
All versions, or not specified · source: KEV
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-0752
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-0752
CISA KEV catalogue
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
Permissions Required
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178044.html
Permissions Required
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178069.html
Mailing List
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00053.html
Mailing List
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00034.html
Mailing List
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00043.html
Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0296.html
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