Security Advisory
CVE-2016-2097
5.3
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in Action View in Ruby on Rails before 3.2.22.2 and 4.x before 4.1.14.2 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. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-0752.
Published Date
April 7, 2016
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory