Directory Traversal The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package rails  (opens in a new tab)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-UBUNTU1810-RAILS-622279
  • published7 Apr 2016
  • disclosed7 Apr 2016

Introduced: 7 Apr 2016

CVE-2016-2097  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.10.

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 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.