CVE-2014-7829
Directory traversal vulnerability in actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/static.rb in Action Pack in Ruby on Rails 3.x before…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 4.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 9.0% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/static.rb in Action Pack in Ruby on Rails 3.x before 3.2.21, 4.0.x before 4.0.12, 4.1.x before 4.1.8, and 4.2.x before 4.2.0.beta4, when serve_static_assets is enabled, allows remote attackers to determine the existence of files outside the application root via vectors involving a \ (backslash) character, a similar issue to CVE-2014-7818.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 46 days later
· 46 days later
Published
- 10 years later
· 10 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.2% · top 9.0% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- RubyGemsactionpackGHSA-h56m-vwxc-3qpw (opens in a new tab)
References
4
- https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2014-7829 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2014:1515 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 71183 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [rubyonrails-security] 20141117 [CVE-2014-7829] Arbitrary file existence disclosure in Action Pack (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2017-0245 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-h56m-vwxc-3qpw (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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