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Directory Traversal The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package ruby-sprockets  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1810-RUBYSPROCKETS-629912
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed8 Nov 2014
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Introduced: 8 Nov 2014

CVE-2014-7819  (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 ruby-sprockets package and not the ruby-sprockets package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in server.rb in Sprockets before 2.0.5, 2.1.x before 2.1.4, 2.2.x before 2.2.3, 2.3.x before 2.3.3, 2.4.x before 2.4.6, 2.5.x before 2.5.1, 2.6.x and 2.7.x before 2.7.1, 2.8.x before 2.8.3, 2.9.x before 2.9.4, 2.10.x before 2.10.2, 2.11.x before 2.11.3, 2.12.x before 2.12.3, and 3.x before 3.0.0.beta.3, as distributed with Ruby on Rails 3.x and 4.x, allow remote attackers to determine the existence of files outside the application root via a ../ (dot dot slash) sequence with (1) double slashes or (2) URL encoding.