CVE-2016-0752
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,…
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
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.
Exploited in the wild
CISA lists this vulnerability in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog as Ruby on Rails Directory Traversal Vulnerability.
- Added
- 25 Mar 2022
- Fix due (US federal)
- 15 Apr 2022
- Used by ransomware
- Not known
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Public exploit
A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit or proof of concept: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: it is being exploited.
- 40561 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Added to CISA KEV
Known exploited in the wild
- 4 years later
· 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 95.5% · top 0.1% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: active · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- RubyGemsactionpackGHSA-xrr4-p6fq-hjg7 (opens in a new tab)
- RubyGemsactionviewGHSA-xrr4-p6fq-hjg7 (opens in a new tab)
References (13)
- 40561 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2016:0372 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2016:0363 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20160125 [CVE-2016-0752] Possible Information Leak Vulnerability in Action View (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- FEDORA-2016-97002ad37b (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2016:1146 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 81801 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 1034816 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- FEDORA-2016-fa0dec2360 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- [ruby-security-ann] 20160125 [CVE-2016-0752] Possible Information Leak Vulnerability in Action View (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- DSA-3464 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:0296 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2016-0752 (opens in a new tab)government-resource
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)
- CISA KEV catalog (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-xrr4-p6fq-hjg7 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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