CVE-2016-0752
Rails Ruby on Rails: Directory Traversal
As of , CVE-2016-0752 in Rails Ruby on Rails is on CISA's list of exploited vulnerabilities: CISA listed it on . Our patch-first group: Patch this week.
- Exploited
- Yes: CISA listed it on 25 March 2022
- US federal deadline
- 15 April 202221 days after CISA listed it. US federal civilian agencies must fix it by then.
- Used in ransomware campaigns
- Not known to CISA
- EPSS score
- 0.96Higher than 99% of the CVEs EPSS scores. EPSS estimates the chance of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS when listed
- 0.93 on 25 March 2022EPSS on the day CISA listed it.
- Public exploit
- 1 Metasploit module and 1 Exploit-DB entry (1 verified)
- Fix
- No vendor link in CISA's entry
What CISA says to do
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
CISA's required action
What the flaw is
Directory traversal vulnerability in Action View in Ruby on Rails allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files.
CISA's description
Directory traversal vulnerability in Action View in Ruby on Rails before 3.2.22.1, 4.0.x and 4.1.x before 4.1.14.1, 4.2.x before 4.2.5.1, and 5.x before 5.0.0.beta1.1 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.
The CVE record's description, from redhat
- CVE published
- 16 February 2016
- Assigned by
- redhat
- CVSS
- 7.5 High (CVSS 3.1, from CISA-ADP)
- CWE-22
- Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
- CISA SSVC, exploitation
- active
- CISA SSVC, automatable
- yes
- CISA SSVC, technical impact
- partial
Timeline
- The CVE record was published.
- Exploit-DB published an exploit (EDB-ID 40561).
- CISA added it to its list of exploited vulnerabilities.
- The US federal deadline to fix it.
Public exploits
Facts from Metasploit's module list and Exploit-DB's index; we never copy exploit code.
- Metasploit: Ruby on Rails Dynamic Render File Upload Remote Code Executionexploit module, rank excellent
- Exploit-DB: Ruby on Rails - Dynamic Render File Upload / Remote Code Execution (Metasploit)EDB-ID 40561, verified by Exploit-DB, 17 October 2016
Ruby on Rails: other exploited entries
| Vulnerability | Product | Our group | Listed | Deadline | EPSS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2019-5418Path Traversal | Rails Ruby on Rails | Patch this weekMetasploit module; EPSS 0.99 | 0.99 | ||
| CVE-2014-0130Directory Traversal | Rails Ruby on Rails | Patch this weekEPSS 0.54 | 0.54 |
Read further
- CVE recordcve.org
- NVD entrynvd.nist.gov
- CISA's catalogcisa.gov
- EPSS for this CVEapi.first.org