CVE-2016-0752Directory 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…
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CISA lists it as known exploited since Mar 25, 2022; federal agencies had to remediate by Apr 15, 2022. Treat that date as your deadline.
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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.
- CVSS
- 7.5 HIGH (v3.1, CISA ADP)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-22
- Known exploited
- Added to CISA KEV Mar 25, 2022; federal remediation due Apr 15, 2022Apply updates per vendor instructions.
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- 95.54% (percentile 100)
- Assigned by
- redhat
- NVD analysis
- Analyzed
- Record last updated
- Oct 21, 2025
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
rubyonrails rails rubyonrails:rails | before 3.2.22.1; from 4.0.0 before 4.1.14.1; from 4.2.0 before 4.2.5.1; 5.0.0 | NVD |
opensuse leap opensuse:leap | 42.1 | NVD |
opensuse opensuse opensuse:opensuse | 13.2 | NVD |
suse linux_enterprise_module_for_containers suse:linux_enterprise_module_for_containers | 12 | NVD |
debian debian_linux debian:debian_linux | 8.0 | NVD |
redhat software_collections redhat:software_collections | 1.0 | NVD |
References
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40561/exploit, x-refsource-exploit-db, third-party-advisory, vdb-entry
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00043.htmlvendor-advisory, x-refsource-suse, mailing-list, third-party-advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00034.htmlvendor-advisory, x-refsource-suse, mailing-list, third-party-advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/25/13mailing-list, x-refsource-mlist, exploit
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178069.htmlvendor-advisory, x-refsource-fedora, permissions-required
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00053.htmlvendor-advisory, x-refsource-suse, mailing-list, third-party-advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81801vdb-entry, x-refsource-bid, broken-link, third-party-advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034816vdb-entry, x-refsource-sectrack, broken-link, third-party-advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178044.htmlvendor-advisory, x-refsource-fedora, permissions-required
- https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=ruby-security-ann/335P1DcLG00/JXcBnTtZEgAJmailing-list, x-refsource-mlist, broken-link
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3464vendor-advisory, x-refsource-debian, mailing-list, third-party-advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0296.htmlvendor-advisory, x-refsource-redhat, third-party-advisory
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2016-0752us-government-resource
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