ADVISORIES

• CVE-2011-2929 (NVD)
• GHSA-r7q2-5gqg-6c7q
• Vendor Advisory

GEM

actionpack

FRAMEWORK

Ruby on Rails

SEVERITY

CVSS v2.0: 5.0 (Medium)

UNAFFECTED VERSIONS

• < 3.0.0

PATCHED VERSIONS

• ~> 3.0.10
• ~> 3.1.0.rc6
• >= 3.1.0

DESCRIPTION

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."

RELATED

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-2929
• http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/8/16/ann-rails-3-1-0-rc6
• https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/5f94b93279f6d0682fafb237c301302c107a9552
• https://groups.google.com/g/rubyonrails-security/c/NCCsca7TEtY/m/Ya9-T266u8sJ
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=731432
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-r7q2-5gqg-6c7q
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065109.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065212.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/17/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/19/11
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/20/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/22/13
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/22/14
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/22/5