CVE-2014-7829: Opensuse

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 4.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/static.rb in Action Pack in Ruby on Rails 3.x before 3.2.21, 4.0.x before 4.0.12, 4.1.x before 4.1.8, and 4.2.x before 4.2.0.beta4, when serve_static_assets is enabled, allows remote attackers to determine the existence of files outside the application root via vectors involving a \ (backslash) character, a similar issue to CVE-2014-7818.

Affected products

• Opensuse Opensuse: version 12.3 only; version 13.1 only; version 13.2 only
• Rubyonrails Rails: version 3.0.0 only; version 3.0.1 only; version 3.0.2 only; version 3.0.3 only; version 3.0.4 only; version 3.0.5 only; …
• Rubyonrails Ruby On Rails: version 3.0.4 only; version 3.2.19 only; version 3.2.20 only; version 4.0.11 only

Published 2014-11-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.