What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2014-0130: Ruby on Rails Directory Traversal Vulnerability

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: yes — in CISA KEV since 2022-03-25
• EPSS: 53.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2014-05-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in actionpack/lib/abstract_controller/base.rb in the implicit-render implementation in Ruby on Rails before 3.2.18, 4.0.x before 4.0.5, and 4.1.x before 4.1.1, when certain route globbing configurations are enabled, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a crafted request.

Affected products

• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 6.0
• RedHat Subscription Asset Manager: through 1.3.0
• Ruby on Rails: before 3.2.18; from 4.0.0 before 4.0.5; from 4.1.0 before 4.1.1 — fixed in 3.2.18, 4.0.5, 4.1.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Ruby on Rails 3.2.18, 4.0.5, 4.1.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://matasano.com/research/AnatomyOfRailsVuln-CVE-2014-0130.pdf
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1863.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67244
• https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=rubyonrails-security/NkKc7vTW70o/NxW_PDBSG3AJ
• http://matasano.com/research/AnatomyOfRailsVuln-CVE-2014-0130.pdf
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1863.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67244
• https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=rubyonrails-security/NkKc7vTW70o/NxW_PDBSG3AJ
• https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2014-0130

Get alerted when CVE-2014-0130 or the next vulnerability affects your stack