Vigil@nce - Rails: two vulnerabilities of Action Pack
May 2016 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can use several vulnerabilities of Action Pack of
Rails.
Impacted products: Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, openSUSE Leap, RHEL.
Severity: 2/4.
Creation date: 10/03/2016.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
Several vulnerabilities were announced in Rails.
An attacker can traverse directories in Action View, in order to
read a file outside the root path. [severity:2/4; CVE-2016-2097]
An attacker can use a vulnerability in Render Method, in order to
run code. [severity:2/4; CVE-2016-2098]
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Rails-two-vulnerabilities-of-Action-Pack-19146