Arbitrary View Rendering Affecting actionpack package, versions >=3.0.0, <3.0.10>=3.1.0.beta1, <3.1.0.rc6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.76% (82nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUBY-ACTIONPACK-20279
  • published28 Feb 2017
  • disclosed16 Aug 2011
  • creditJan M. Faber

Introduced: 16 Aug 2011

CVE-2011-2929  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

Overview

actionpack is a web app builder and tester on Rails.

The template selection code contains a vulnerability which allows an attacker to craft a URL and cause Rails to render an arbitrary view, regardless of if they have permissions to view the template. This only affects 3.0 applications which use :action in their routes.

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