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CVE-2016-0752

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,…

High7.5Known exploitedEPSS 95.5%
Published
Updated
Reserved
Assigned by
redhat

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.

Exploited in the wild

CISA lists this vulnerability in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog as Ruby on Rails Directory Traversal Vulnerability.

Added
25 Mar 2022
Fix due (US federal)
15 Apr 2022
Used by ransomware
Not known

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Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2016-0752, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
CISA-ADPADP (enrichment)3.1High7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVDNVD · Analyzed3.1High7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
95.5% · top 0.1% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
CISA SSVC
Exploitation: active · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.

Weakness

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Affected packages

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