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Vulnerability details: VCID-3x4p-t3yb-3yak
Vulnerability ID VCID-3x4p-t3yb-3yak
Aliases GHSA-5xmj-wm96-fmw8
Summary Moderate severity vulnerability that affects actionpack Withdrawn, accidental duplicate publish. 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.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 6.2
Risk 3.1
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (0)
There are no known CWE.
No exploits are available.

No EPSS data available for this vulnerability.

Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-04-01T13:03:44.128670+00:00 GithubOSV Importer Import https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2018/09/GHSA-5xmj-wm96-fmw8/GHSA-5xmj-wm96-fmw8.json 38.0.0