CVE-2014-7818
Directory traversal vulnerability in actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/static.rb in Action Pack in Ruby on Rails 3.x before 3.2.20, 4.0.x before 4.0.11, 4.1.x before 4.1.7, and 4.2.x before
02 Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/static.rb in Action Pack in Ruby on Rails 3.x before 3.2.20, 4.0.x before 4.0.11, 4.1.x before 4.1.7, and 4.2.x before
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 3.45% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 88.9% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2014-11-08 11:00Z11 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 13:03Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2014-10-03
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 648ad787874b1f54df98516365f4b8d29bd8a8ab0b402a2195fc31afe69e6e2f
05 Affected products
06 References
- puppet.comhttps://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2014-7829
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2014:1515http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00112.html
- groups.google.com[rubyonrails-security] 20141030 Arbitrary file existence disclosure in Action Pack (CVE-2014-7818)https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=rubyonrails-security/dCp7duBiQgo/v_R_8PFs5IwJ
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- rails Fixed in 2:4.1.8-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- rails Fixed in 2:4.1.8-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- rails Fixed in 2:4.1.8-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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