Directory Traversal The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package ruby193-rubygem-actionpack (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-RUBY193RUBYGEMACTIONPACK-9859121
- published28 Apr 2025
- disclosed29 Feb 2016
Introduced: 29 Feb 2016
CVE-2016-2097 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ruby193-rubygem-actionpack package and not the ruby193-rubygem-actionpack package as distributed by RHEL.
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 use of the render method and providing a .. (dot dot) in a pathname. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-0752.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1310043
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2097
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00080.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00083.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00006.html
- http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2016/2/29/Rails-4-2-5-2-4-1-14-2-3-2-22-2-have-been-released/
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3509
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83726
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035122
- https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=rubyonrails-security/ddY6HgqB2z4/we0RasMZIAAJ