vulnerability

Ruby on Rails: (CVE-2016-2097)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Apr 7, 2016
Added
Jan 3, 2020
Modified
Apr 14, 2025

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.

Solution

ruby-on-rails-upgrade-latest
Title
NEW

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