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CVE-2014-7819 (sprockets): CVE-2014-7819 rubygem-sprockets: arbitrary file existence disclosure

ADVISORIES

GEM

sprockets

SEVERITY

CVSS v2.0: 5.0 (Medium)

PATCHED VERSIONS

  • ~> 2.0.5
  • ~> 2.1.4
  • ~> 2.2.3
  • ~> 2.3.3
  • ~> 2.4.6
  • ~> 2.5.1
  • ~> 2.7.1
  • ~> 2.8.3
  • ~> 2.9.4
  • ~> 2.10.2
  • ~> 2.11.3
  • ~> 2.12.3
  • >= 3.0.0.beta.3

DESCRIPTION

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in server.rb in Sprockets before 2.0.5, 2.1.x before 2.1.4, 2.2.x before 2.2.3, 2.3.x before 2.3.3, 2.4.x before 2.4.6, 2.5.x before 2.5.1, 2.6.x and 2.7.x before 2.7.1, 2.8.x before 2.8.3, 2.9.x before 2.9.4, 2.10.x before 2.10.2, 2.11.x before 2.11.3, 2.12.x before 2.12.3, and 3.x before 3.0.0.beta.3, as distributed with Ruby on Rails 3.x and 4.x, allow remote attackers to determine the existence of files outside the application root via a ../ (dot dot slash) sequence with (1) double slashes or (2) URL encoding.