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CVE-2016-2097

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 le…

Impact

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
RubyonrailsRails
Versions 4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 4.0.5
RubyonrailsRuby On Rails
through 3.2.22.1
Version 4.1.14.1

Weakness classification

References