CVE-2016-0752

7.5

CVSS
High

PUBLISHED

Directory traversal vulnerability in Action View in Ruby on Rails before 3.2.22.1, 4.0.x and 4.1.x before 4.1.14.1, 4.2.x before 4.2.5.1, and 5.x...

Exploited in the wild Remote Low complexity No user interaction

Vendor: Ruby on Rails
Product: Action View
Published: Feb 16, 2016
EPSS: —

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in Action View in Ruby on Rails before 3.2.22.1, 4.0.x and 4.1.x before 4.1.14.1, 4.2.x before 4.2.5.1, and 5.x before 5.0.0.beta1.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files by leveraging an application's unrestricted use of the render method and providing a .. (dot dot) in a pathname.

ruby cisa metasploit

CVSS scores

CVSS v3.1 7.5 High

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVSS v2.0 5.0

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

Exploitation status

Exploited in the wild

Recorded 2022-03-25 00:00:00 UTC · Source

SSVC decision points

Exploitation: active
Automatable: Yes
Technical impact: partial

References

Known exploited vulnerability sources

Catalogues that list this CVE as a known exploited vulnerability.

Source	Added
CISA	Mar 25, 2022

Scanner integrations

Scanner	Reference	Detected
Metasploit	https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/http/rails_dynamic_render_code_exec.rb	Apr 28, 2025

Potential proof of concepts

These PoCs are unverified and could contain malware. Use at your own risk.

rails_dynamic_render_code_exec

metasploit · Created Unknown

Metasploit module for CVE-2016-0752

dachidahu/CVE-2016-0752

github · Created 2016-03-18 21:10:18 UTC · 0 stars

Vulnerability detail