CVE-2016-0752

7.5 HIGH CISA KEV - Actively Exploited

Published: February 16, 2016 Modified: October 22, 2025

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.

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CVSS v3.x Details

0.0 Low Medium High Critical 10.0

Vector String

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178044.html

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Permissions Required

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178069.html

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Permissions Required

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00053.html

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Mailing List Third Party Advisory

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00034.html

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Mailing List Third Party Advisory

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00043.html

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Mailing List Third Party Advisory

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0296.html

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Third Party Advisory

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3464

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Mailing List Third Party Advisory

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/25/13

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Exploit Mailing List

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81801

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Broken Link Third Party Advisory VDB Entry

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034816

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Broken Link Third Party Advisory VDB Entry

https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=ruby-security-ann/335P1DcLG00/JXcBnTtZEgAJ

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Broken Link

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40561/

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Exploit Third Party Advisory VDB Entry

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178044.html