Directory Traversal The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package rails  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1510-RAILS-629914
  • published8 Nov 2014
  • disclosed8 Nov 2014

Introduced: 8 Nov 2014

CVE-2014-7818  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:15.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rails package and not the rails package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Directory traversal vulnerability in actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/static.rb in Action Pack in Ruby on Rails 3.x before 3.2.20, 4.0.x before 4.0.11, 4.1.x before 4.1.7, and 4.2.x before 4.2.0.beta3, when serve_static_assets is enabled, allows remote attackers to determine the existence of files outside the application root via a /..%2F sequence.