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Advisory details: gitlab / gem/rails/CVE-2016-2097
Advisory ID gitlab/gem/rails/CVE-2016-2097
Aliases CVE-2016-2097
Summary Path Traversal Directory traversal vulnerability in Action View in Ruby on Rails before allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files by leveraging an application's unrestricted use of the render method and providing a `..` in a pathname.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 0.0
Risk
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Introduced and Fixed Package Commit Patches Package Commit Patches Details
Weaknesses (0)
There are no known CWE.
System Score Found at
cvssv2 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/gem/rails/CVE-2016-2097.yml
cvssv3 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/gem/rails/CVE-2016-2097.yml
Reference id Reference type URL
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2016/2/29/Rails-4-2-5-2-4-1-14-2-3-2-22-2-have-been-released/
CVE-2016-2097 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2097

No exploits are available.

No EPSS data available for this advisory.

Patch URL
There are no known patches.
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N Found at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/gem/rails/CVE-2016-2097.yml
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

local

adjacent_network

network

high

medium

low

multiple

single

none

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N Found at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/gem/rails/CVE-2016-2097.yml
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none

There are no SSVC decisions available.