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CVE-2016-0752

HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: February 16, 2016 at 02:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:38 AM UTC
6 products affected across 5 vendorsDebian LinuxLeapopenSUSE

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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploitation
CISA KEV
Exploit prediction
EPSS 96%
SSVC
Active

Actively Exploited

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog

EPSS Score95.5%

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) estimates a 95.5% chance this CVE is exploited in the wild within the next 30 days — higher than 100% of all CVEs. It complements CVSS: a high EPSS on a mid-severity CVE can still be urgent.

Directory traversal vulnerability in Action View in Ruby on Rails allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files.

Required Action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Ransomware Use
Unknown
Added to KEV
Mar 25, 2022
Remediation Due
Apr 15, 2022
1656 days overdue
Notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-0752

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Debian Linux· Debiandrupal
95%
8.0
Leap· openSUSEdrupal
95%
42.1
openSUSE· openSUSE
95%
13.2
Software Collections· Red Hatrpm
95%
1.0
Rails· Rubyonrails
95%
v < 3.2.22.14.0.0 ≤ v < 4.1.14.14.2.0 ≤ v < 4.2.5.15.0.0 beta1
Affected range stops below 3.2.22.1, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 4.1.14.1, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 4.2.5.1, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Linux Enterprise Module for Containers· SUSE
95%
12

References (13)

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAPermissions Required
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178044.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAPermissions Required
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178069.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00053.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00034.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00043.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHATThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0296.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3464
Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTExploit
Source: [email protected]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/25/13

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCActiveAutomatablePartial impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

7.5HIGHCISA-ADP
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
NONE
Availability
NONE
Vector?

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StatusANALYZED
CWE
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