Confirmed as exploited
CVE-2016-0752
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.
01 / ACTION
Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
53 explicit affected versions
250 explicit affected versions
48 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Directory traversal vulnerability in Action View in Ruby on Rails allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files.
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.
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.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- 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
- 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://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-0752
- 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
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40561/