{"answers":{"affected":"8 open source packages ship an affected version, including actionpack and actionview. It affects 2 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-2097 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade actionpack to a fixed version for your release line: 3.2.22.2 or 4.1.14.2.","what":"CVE-2016-2097 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Rubyonrails Rails, published on 7 Apr 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2016-2097 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2016-2097 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Rubyonrails Rails, published on 7 Apr 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-2097 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected packages and fixed versions:\n- actionpack (RubyGems): affected from 3.0.0; fixed in 3.2.22.2\n- actionpack (RubyGems): affected from 3.0.0; fixed in 3.2.22.2\n- actionpack (RubyGems): affected from 4.0.0; fixed in 4.1.14.2\n- actionpack (RubyGems): affected from 4.0.0; fixed in 4.1.14.2\n- actionview (RubyGems): affected from 3.0.0; fixed in 3.2.22.2\n- actionview (RubyGems): affected from 3.0.0; fixed in 3.2.22.2\n- actionview (RubyGems): affected from 4.0.0; fixed in 4.1.14.2\n- actionview (RubyGems): affected from 4.0.0; fixed in 4.1.14.2\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-2097/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-2097/index.md)","id":"CVE-2016-2097","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-2097/index.md","name":"CVE-2016-2097","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2016-2097","GHSA-vx9j-46rh-fqr8"],"analysis":{"component_type":"library","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["data_read"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":true,"product_category":"Ruby on Rails","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Remote attackers can read arbitrary files by exploiting a directory traversal flaw in Ruby on Rails' render method when unrestricted use is enabled.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"path_traversal"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"redhat","cpe":[{"product":"rails","vendor":"rubyonrails"},{"product":"ruby_on_rails","vendor":"rubyonrails"}],"cvss":{"score":5.3,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N","version":"3.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-22","name":"Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory"}],"description":"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 .. 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NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-0752.","ecosystems":["RubyGems"],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"actionview contains Path Traversal vulnerability","id":"CVE-2016-2097","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":"RubyGems","product":"rubyonrails:rails","products":["rubyonrails:rails"],"type":"path_traversal","year":"2016"},"n_packages":8,"n_references":8,"next":{"headline":"actionpack allows remote code execution via application's unrestricted use of render method","id":"CVE-2016-2098"},"packages":[{"ecosystem":"RubyGems","fixed":["3.2.22.2"],"introduced":["3.0.0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"actionpack","purl":null,"source":"GHSA-vx9j-46rh-fqr8"},{"ecosystem":"RubyGems","fixed":["3.2.22.2"],"introduced":["3.0.0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"actionpack","purl":"pkg:gem/actionpack","source":"GHSA-vx9j-46rh-fqr8"},{"ecosystem":"RubyGems","fixed":["4.1.14.2"],"introduced":["4.0.0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"actionpack","purl":null,"source":"GHSA-vx9j-46rh-fqr8"},{"ecosystem":"RubyGems","fixed":["4.1.14.2"],"introduced":["4.0.0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"actionpack","purl":"pkg:gem/actionpack","source":"GHSA-vx9j-46rh-fqr8"},{"ecosystem":"RubyGems","fixed":["3.2.22.2"],"introduced":["3.0.0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"actionview","purl":null,"source":"GHSA-vx9j-46rh-fqr8"},{"ecosystem":"RubyGems","fixed":["3.2.22.2"],"introduced":["3.0.0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"actionview","purl":"pkg:gem/actionview","source":"GHSA-vx9j-46rh-fqr8"},{"ecosystem":"RubyGems","fixed":["4.1.14.2"],"introduced":["4.0.0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"actionview","purl":null,"source":"GHSA-vx9j-46rh-fqr8"},{"ecosystem":"RubyGems","fixed":["4.1.14.2"],"introduced":["4.0.0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"actionview","purl":"pkg:gem/actionview","source":"GHSA-vx9j-46rh-fqr8"}],"prev":{"headline":"Denial of service in n/a","id":"CVE-2016-2094"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2016-04-07","related":[{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Active Record contains deserialization of arbitrary YAML","id":"CVE-2013-0277","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2013-02-13"},{"cvss_score":8.1,"headline":"SQL injection in n/a","id":"CVE-2017-17916","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2017-12-29"},{"cvss_score":8.1,"headline":"SQL injection in n/a","id":"CVE-2017-17917","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2017-12-29"},{"cvss_score":8,"headline":"Rails Active Storage has possible Path Traversal in DiskService","id":"CVE-2026-33195","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-03-23"},{"cvss_score":7.5,"headline":"Rails possible ReDoS vulnerability in Accept header parsing in Action Dispatch","id":"CVE-2024-26142","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-02-27"},{"cvss_score":7.5,"headline":"ReDoS based DoS vulnerability in Action Dispatch","id":"CVE-2023-22792","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-02-09"},{"cvss_score":7.5,"headline":"Denial of Service in Action Dispatch","id":"CVE-2021-22902","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2021-06-11"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CC BY 4.0","name":"GitHub Advisory Database","prefix":"GHSA"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-05","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Remote attackers can read arbitrary files by exploiting a directory traversal flaw in Ruby on Rails' render method when unrestricted use is enabled.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-2097/"}