GHSA-xrr4-p6fq-hjg7

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    GHSA-xrr4-p6fq-hjg7

    Published: 24 Oct 2017Last Modified: 22 Oct 2025
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    Summary: Directory traversal vulnerability in Action View in Ruby on Rails

    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://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-0752, https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xrr4-p6fq-hjg7, https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/actionpack/CVE-2016-0752.yml, https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/actionview/CVE-2016-0752.yml, https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rubyonrails-security/335P1DcLG00, https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=ruby-security-ann/335P1DcLG00/JXcBnTtZEgAJ, https://web.archive.org/web/20210618005620/https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=ruby-security-ann/335P1DcLG00/JXcBnTtZEgAJ, https://web.archive.org/web/20210621170450/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81801, https://web.archive.org/web/20210723192420/http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034816, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2016-0752, https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40561, http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178044.html, http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178069.html, 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.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/25/13, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81801, http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034816

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: actionview

    Purl: pkg:gem/actionview

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 4.0.0
    Fixed -4.1.14.1

    Affected versions

    4.1.0
    4.1.0.beta1
    4.1.0.beta2
    4.1.0.rc1
    4.1.0.rc2
    4.1.1
    4.1.10
    4.1.10.rc1
    4.1.10.rc2
    4.1.10.rc3
    4.1.10.rc4
    4.1.11
    4.1.12
    4.1.12.rc1
    4.1.13
    4.1.13.rc1
    4.1.14
    4.1.14.rc1
    4.1.14.rc2
    4.1.2
    4.1.2.rc1
    4.1.2.rc2
    4.1.2.rc3
    4.1.3
    4.1.4
    4.1.5
    4.1.6
    4.1.6.rc1
    4.1.6.rc2
    4.1.7
    4.1.7.1
    4.1.8
    4.1.9
    4.1.9.rc1

    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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