CVE-2016-0752

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    CVE-2016-0752

    Published: 16 Feb 2016Last Modified: 9 Sept 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=ruby-security-ann/335P1DcLG00/JXcBnTtZEgAJ, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2016-0752, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00053.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00034.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00043.html, http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0296.html, http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3464, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81801, http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034816, http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178044.html, http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178069.html, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/25/13, https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40561/

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -8d86637fb64ae8ae81ab71a286ddba02cc3144a4

    Affected versions

    5.0.0-beta1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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