CVE-2016-0752
HIGH severity · CVSS 7.5 · Path traversal · actively exploited (CISA KEV)
7.5CVSS HIGH ● exploited
🔴 Actively exploited in the wild (CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities).
Added to KEV 2022-03-25. US federal agencies must patch by 2022-04-15.
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)90%
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
This vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild — patch affected products urgently. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- 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.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00034.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00043.htmlAdvisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0296.htmlAdvisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3464Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/25/13Exploit