ubuntu · CVE-2016-2097

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Priority: medium Published: 2016-04-07 23:59:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 21:56:26 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2016-2097 medium priority: Ubuntu including 11 source packages (rails, rails-4.0, …), 121 status rows across 11 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, precise, trusty, upstream, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): DNE 97, ignored 12, needs-triage 7, not-affected 5.

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.

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