GHSA-xrr4-p6fq-hjg7HighCVSS 7.5

Directory traversal vulnerability in Action View in Ruby on Rails

Published
October 24, 2017
Last Modified
October 22, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in Action View in Ruby on Rails before 3.2.22.1, 4.0.x and 4.1.x before 4.1.14.1, 4.2.x before 4.2.5.1, and 5.x before 5.0.0.beta1.1 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.

🎯 Affected products5

  • rubygems/actionview:>= 4.0.0, <= 4.1.14.0
  • rubygems/actionview:>= 4.2.0, <= 4.2.5.0
  • rubygems/actionpack:>= 4.0.0, <= 4.1.14.0
  • rubygems/actionpack:>= 4.2.0, <= 4.2.5.0
  • rubygems/actionpack:< 3.2.22.1

🔗 References (21)