PT-2014-8290 · Ruby On Rails · Action Pack

Published 2014-11-08 · Updated 2019-08-08 · CVE-2014-7818

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Action Pack versions 3.x through 3.2.19 Action Pack versions 4.0.x through 4.0.10 Action Pack versions 4.1.x through 4.1.6 Action Pack versions 4.2.x through 4.2.0.beta2

Description The issue allows remote attackers to determine the existence of files outside the application root via a /..%2F sequence when serve static assets is enabled. This is a directory traversal vulnerability in actionpack/lib/action dispatch/middleware/static.rb in Action Pack in Ruby on Rails.

Recommendations For Action Pack versions 3.x through 3.2.19, update to version 3.2.20 or later. For Action Pack versions 4.0.x through 4.0.10, update to version 4.0.11 or later. For Action Pack versions 4.1.x through 4.1.6, update to version 4.1.7 or later. For Action Pack versions 4.2.x through 4.2.0.beta2, update to version 4.2.0.beta3 or later. As a temporary workaround, consider disabling the serve static assets option until a patch is available.

Exploit

Fix

Path traversal

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-22

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-7818

GHSA-23V3-QFRJ-WMGH

GHSA-29GR-W57F-RPFW

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10332-1

SUSE-SU-2015:0863-1

Affected Products

Action Pack

References · 14

• 🔥 https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/actionpack/CVE-2014-7818.yml · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-7818 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-7818 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00112.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-29gr-w57f-rpfw · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-7818 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-7818 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-23v3-qfrj-wmgh · Vendor Advisory
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rubyonrails-security/dCp7duBiQgo · Note
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-23v3-qfrj-wmgh · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-7818 · Note
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-29gr-w57f-rpfw · Note
• https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=rubyonrails-security/dCp7duBiQgo/v_R_8PFs5IwJ · Note
• https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2014-7829 · Note