CVE-2014-7819

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-11-08 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in server.rb in Sprockets before 2.0.5, 2.1.x before 2.1.4, 2.2.x before 2.2.3, 2.3.x before 2.3.3, 2.4.x before 2.4.6, 2.5.x before 2.5.1, 2.6.x and 2.7.x before 2.7.1, 2.8.x before 2.8.3, 2.9.x before 2.9.4, 2.10.x before 2.10.2, 2.11.x before 2.11.3, 2.12.x before 2.12.3, and 3.x before 3.0.0.beta.3, as distributed with Ruby on Rails 3.x and 4.x, allow remote attackers to determine the existence of files outside the application root via a ../ (dot dot slash) sequence with (1) double slashes or (2) URL encoding.

Affected products

Sprockets Project Sprockets: from 2.0.0 before 2.0.5; from 2.1.0 before 2.1.4; from 2.2.0 before 2.2.3; from 2.3.0 before 2.3.3; from 2.4.0 before 2.4.6; from 2.5.0 before 2.5.1 — fixed in 2.0.5, 2.1.4, 2.10.2, 2.11.3, 2.12.3, 2.2.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Sprockets Project Sprockets 2.0.5, 2.1.4, 2.10.2, 2.11.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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