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CVE-2014-7818
Directory traversal vulnerability in actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/static.rb in Action Pack in Ruby on Rails 3.x before…
Medium4.3EPSS 3.5%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.5% · top 11% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- RubyGemsactionpackGHSA-29gr-w57f-rpfw (opens in a new tab)
References (3)
- https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2014-7829 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2014:1515 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- [rubyonrails-security] 20141030 Arbitrary file existence disclosure in Action Pack (CVE-2014-7818) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-29gr-w57f-rpfw (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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