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rubygem-actionpack: directory traversal in Action View, incomplete CVE-2016-0752 fix

Published Apr 7, 2016

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.

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner redhat
Published Apr 7, 2016
Updated Aug 5, 2024
Reserved Jan 29, 2016
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Important
Public date Feb 29, 2016
GHSA-VX9J-46RH-FQR8