Arbitrary View Rendering Vulnerability in Ruby on Rails

CVE-2011-2929 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

The template selection functionality in actionpack/lib/action_view/template/resolver.rb in Ruby on Rails 3.0.x before 3.0.10 and 3.1.x before 3.1.0.rc6 does not properly handle glob characters, which allows remote attackers to render arbitrary views via a crafted URL, related to a "filter skipping vulnerability."

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