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Ubuntu: (CVE-2016-0752): rails vulnerability

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Ubuntu: (CVE-2016-0752): rails vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
02/16/2016
Created
11/21/2024
Added
11/19/2024
Modified
11/27/2024

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.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-rails

References

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