CVE-2016-2097
high-risk
Published 2016-04-07
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.
Do I need to act?
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1.9% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — moderate exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
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5
CVSS 5.3/10
Medium
NETWORK
/ LOW complexity
Affected Products (20)
Affected Vendors
References (16)
52
/ 100
high-risk
Severity
21/34 · High
Exploitability
5/34 · Minimal
Exposure
26/34 · High