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CVE-2016-0752

HIGHCISA KEV

7.5

Description

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score7.5

SeverityHIGH

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack VectorNETWORK

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredNONE

User InteractionNONE

Published2/16/2016

Last Modified4/22/2026

Sourcekev

Honeypot Sightings0

CISA KEV

VendorRails

ProductRuby on Rails

Vulnerability NameRuby on Rails Directory Traversal Vulnerability

KEV Date Added2022-03-25

Remediation Due Date2022-04-15

Ransomware UseUnknown

Affected Products

debian:debian_linuxopensuse:leapopensuse:opensuseredhat:software_collectionsrubyonrails:railssuse:linux_enterprise_module_for_containers

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-22CWE-22

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178044.html(secalert@redhat.com)

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178069.html(secalert@redhat.com)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00053.html(secalert@redhat.com)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00034.html(secalert@redhat.com)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00043.html(secalert@redhat.com)

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0296.html(secalert@redhat.com)

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3464(secalert@redhat.com)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/25/13(secalert@redhat.com)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81801(secalert@redhat.com)

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034816(secalert@redhat.com)

https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=ruby-security-ann/335P1DcLG00/JXcBnTtZEgAJ(secalert@redhat.com)

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40561/(secalert@redhat.com)

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178044.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178069.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00053.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00034.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00043.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0296.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3464(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/25/13(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81801(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034816(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=ruby-security-ann/335P1DcLG00/JXcBnTtZEgAJ(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40561/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2016-0752(134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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