CVE-2016-0752 vulnerability in Ruby on Rails and Other Products
Published on February 16, 2016
Known Exploited Vulnerability
This Ruby on Rails Directory Traversal Vulnerability is part of CISA's list of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities. Directory traversal vulnerability in Action View in Ruby on Rails allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files.
The following remediation steps are recommended / required by April 15, 2022: Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2016-0752 is exploitable with network access, and does not require authorization privileges or user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. This vulnerability is known to be actively exploited by threat actors in an automatable fashion. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have a high impact on confidentiality, with no impact on integrity and availability.
Weakness Type
What is a Directory traversal Vulnerability?
The software uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the software does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory.
CVE-2016-0752 has been classified to as a Directory traversal vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2016-0752
You can be notified by email with stack.watch whenever vulnerabilities like CVE-2016-0752 are published in these products:
Exploit Probability
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) scores estimate the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days. The percentile shows you how this score compares to all other vulnerabilities.