Medium severity · published Apr 7, 2016
CVE-2016-2097
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…
5.3
CVSS
4.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)4.4% · higher than 91% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
RA
Rails · Rubyonrails
4.0.0; 4.0.0; 4.0.0; 4.0.0; 4.0.1; 4.0.1; +34 more · source: NVD
RO
Ruby ON Rails · Rubyonrails
through 3.2.22.1; 4.1.14.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2097
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2097
lists.opensuse.org
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
Patch
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2016/2/29/Rails-4-2-5-2-4-1-14-2-3-2-22-2-have-been-released/
www.debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3509
www.securityfocus.com
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83726
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