Directory Traversal Affecting rails package, versions <2:4.1.8-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.55% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-RAILS-1558407
  • published18 Nov 2014
  • disclosed18 Nov 2014

Introduced: 18 Nov 2014

CVE-2014-7829  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:12 rails to version 2:4.1.8-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rails package and not the rails package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.

Directory traversal vulnerability in actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/static.rb in Action Pack in Ruby on Rails 3.x before 3.2.21, 4.0.x before 4.0.12, 4.1.x before 4.1.8, and 4.2.x before 4.2.0.beta4, when serve_static_assets is enabled, allows remote attackers to determine the existence of files outside the application root via vectors involving a \ (backslash) character, a similar issue to CVE-2014-7818.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1