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CVE-2016-0752

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered Topic
2016-02-02 rails -- multiple vulnerabilities

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2016-0752
Phase Assigned(20151216)

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.

References

Source Reference
MLIST [oss-security] 20160125 [CVE-2016-0752] Possible Information Leak Vulnerability in Action View
MLIST [ruby-security-ann] 20160125 [CVE-2016-0752] Possible Information Leak Vulnerability in Action View