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 leveraging an application's unrestricted
02 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
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
- 4.42% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 90.9% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 5.3 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Important. 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
- 2016-04-07 23:00Z10 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 23:17Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2016-01-29
- 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
- 23e53f2b85dd259d41179de2baf31943269de6a429b8a5c997e8147850860c75
05 Affected products
06 References
- lists.opensuse.orgSUSE-SU-2016:0967http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00006.html
- www.debian.orgDSA-3509http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3509
- groups.google.com[ruby-security-ann] 20160229 [CVE-2016-0752] Possible Information Leak Vulnerability in Action Viewhttps://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=rubyonrails-security/ddY6HgqB2z4/we0RasMZIAAJ
- www.securitytracker.com1035122http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035122
- lists.opensuse.orgSUSE-SU-2016:0854http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00083.html
- www.securityfocus.com83726http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83726
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2016:0835http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00080.html
- weblog.rubyonrails.orghttp://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2016/2/29/Rails-4-2-5-2-4-1-14-2-3-2-22-2-have-been-released/
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- rails Fixed in 2:4.2.5.2-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- rails Fixed in 2:4.2.5.2-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- rails Fixed in 2:4.2.5.2-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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