Arbitrary File Existence Exposure Affecting actionpack package, versions < 4.1.7.1, >= 4.1 < 4.0.11.1, >= 3.3 < 3.2.21, >= 3.0.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.53% (78th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-ACTIONPACK-20200
  • published 16 Nov 2014
  • disclosed 16 Nov 2014
  • credit Patrick Toomey, Remon Oldenbeuving

How to fix?

Upgrade actionpack to versions 3.0.0, 3.2.21, 4.0.11.1, 4.0.12, 4.1.7.1, 4.1.8 or higher.

Overview

actionpack is a web app builder and tester on Rails.

Affected versions of this Gem are vulnerable to Arbitrary File Existence Exposure. Specially crafted requests can be used to determine whether a file exists on the file system, outside of the Rails application's root directory. The files will not be served, but attackers can determine whether or not the file exists.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
5.3 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    None
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NVD

5.3 medium
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Red Hat

5.3 medium