Directory Traversal Vulnerability in Action Pack in Ruby on Rails

CVE-2014-7818 · MEDIUM Severity

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

Directory traversal vulnerability in actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/static.rb in Action Pack in Ruby on Rails 3.x before 3.2.20, 4.0.x before 4.0.11, 4.1.x before 4.1.7, and 4.2.x before 4.2.0.beta3, when serve_static_assets is enabled, allows remote attackers to determine the existence of files outside the application root via a /..%2F sequence.

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