CVE-2016-2097: Rubyonrails Rails

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 4.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in Action View in Ruby on Rails before 3.2.22.2 and 4.x before 4.1.14.2 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. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-0752.

Affected products

• Rubyonrails Rails: version 4.0.0 only; version 4.0.1 only; version 4.0.2 only; version 4.0.3 only; version 4.0.4 only; version 4.0.5 only; …
• Rubyonrails Ruby On Rails: up to and including 3.2.22.1; version 4.1.14.1 only

Published 2016-04-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.