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Ruby on Rails Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory (Path Traversal) Vulnerability - CVE-2014-7818 - Vulnerability Database
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Ruby on Rails Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory (Path Traversal) Vulnerability - CVE-2014-7818

Medium
Reference: CVE-2014-7818
NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-7818
Title: Ruby on Rails Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory (Path Traversal) Vulnerability
Overview:

Directory traversal vulnerability in actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/static.rb in Action Pack in Ruby on Rails 3.x before 3.2.20 4.0.x before 4.0.11 4.1.x before 4.1.7 and 4.2.x before 4.2.0.beta3 when serve_static_assets is enabled allows remote attackers to determine the existence of files outside the application root via a /..2F sequence.