| Name | CVE-2016-2097 |
| Description | Directory traversal vulnerability in Action View in Ruby on Rails before 3.2.22.2 and 4.x before 4.1.14.2 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. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-0752. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-604-1, DSA-3509-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| rails (PTS) | bullseye (security), bullseye | 2:6.0.3.7+dfsg-2+deb11u2 | fixed |
| bookworm | 2:6.1.7.3+dfsg-2~deb12u1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 2:6.1.7.3+dfsg-4 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[wheezy] - rails <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present, is only a transitional package)
[squeeze] - rails <end-of-life> (Not supported in Squeeze LTS)
Versions Affected: 3.2.x, 4.0.x, 4.1.x
Not affected: 4.2+
Fixed Versions: 3.2.22.2, 4.1.14.2