Directory traversal vulnerability in Action View in Ruby on Rails (GHSA-xrr4-p6fq-hjg7)
Published: 2017-10-24T18:33:35Z
Aliases: CVE-2016-0752
Severity: HIGH · CWE: CWE-22

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.

Affected packages:
package: ecosystem: RubyGems
name: actionview
ranges: type: ECOSYSTEM
events: introduced: 4.0.0
fixed: 4.1.14.1
database_specific: last_known_affected_version_range: <= 4.1.14.0
package: ecosystem: RubyGems
name: actionview
ranges: type: ECOSYSTEM
events: introduced: 4.2.0
fixed: 4.2.5.1
database_specific: last_known_affected_version_range: <= 4.2.5.0
package: ecosystem: RubyGems
name: actionpack
ranges: type: ECOSYSTEM
events: introduced: 4.0.0
fixed: 4.1.14.1
database_specific: last_known_affected_version_range: <= 4.1.14.0
package: ecosystem: RubyGems
name: actionpack
ranges: type: ECOSYSTEM
events: introduced: 4.2.0
fixed: 4.2.5.1
database_specific: last_known_affected_version_range: <= 4.2.5.0
package: ecosystem: RubyGems
name: actionpack
ranges: type: ECOSYSTEM
events: introduced: 0
fixed: 3.2.22.1