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Moderate severity vulnerability that affects actionpack

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Sep 17, 2018 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 9, 2023
Withdrawn This advisory was withdrawn on Jun 16, 2020

Package

bundler actionpack (RubyGems)

Affected versions

< 3.2.21
>= 4.0.0, < 4.0.12
>= 4.1.0, < 4.1.8

Patched versions

3.2.21
4.0.12
4.1.8

Description

Withdrawn, accidental duplicate publish.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.

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Sep 17, 2018
Reviewed Jun 16, 2020
Withdrawn Jun 16, 2020
Last updated Jan 9, 2023

Severity

Moderate

Weaknesses

No CWEs

CVE ID

No known CVE

GHSA ID

GHSA-5xmj-wm96-fmw8

Source code

No known source code
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