CVE-2011-2929

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-08-29 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The template selection functionality in actionpack/lib/action_view/template/resolver.rb in Ruby on Rails 3.0.x before 3.0.10 and 3.1.x before 3.1.0.rc6 does not properly handle glob characters, which allows remote attackers to render arbitrary views via a crafted URL, related to a "filter skipping vulnerability."

Affected products

Ruby on Rails: 3.0.0, 3.0.0-beta, 3.0.0-beta2, 3.0.0-beta3, 3.0.0-beta4, 3.0.0-rc (+34)
rubyonrails Ruby On Rails: 3.0.4

References

http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/cbbbba6e4f7eaf61?dmode=source&output=gplain
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065109.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065212.html
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/8/16/ann-rails-3-1-0-rc6
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/17/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/19/11
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/20/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/22/13
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/22/14
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/22/5
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=731432
https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/5f94b93279f6d0682fafb237c301302c107a9552

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