CVE-2014-7818

mediumpriority · track · 18EPSS 0.035 · 89 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

3.46% (89th) EPSS

CVSS 4.3 · medium

Is it mine?

77 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Directory traversal vulnerability in actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/static.rb in Action Pack in Ruby on Rails 3.x before 3.2.20, 4.0.x before 4.0.11, 4.1.x before 4.1.7, and 4.2.x before 4.2.0.beta3, when serve_static_assets is enabled, allows remote attackers to determine the existence of files outside the application root via a /..%2F sequence.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

4.3

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–medium · 3.7–4.3

v2.04.3mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 2.9

v2.03.7lowAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-22USprimaryCWE-22US

affected products (77)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
opensuse opensuse= 12.3nvdUScpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
opensuse opensuse= 13.1nvdUScpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
opensuse opensuse= 13.2nvdUScpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubyonrails rails= 3.0.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubyonrails rails= 3.0.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubyonrails rails= 3.0.10nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubyonrails rails= 3.0.11nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubyonrails rails= 3.0.12nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubyonrails rails= 3.0.13nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubyonrails rails= 3.0.14nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubyonrails rails= 3.0.16nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubyonrails rails= 3.0.17nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubyonrails rails= 3.0.18nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubyonrails rails= 3.0.19nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubyonrails rails= 3.0.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubyonrails rails= 3.0.20nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubyonrails rails= 3.0.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubyonrails rails= 3.0.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubyonrails rails= 3.0.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-29gr-w57f-rpfwactionpack vulnerable to Path Traversal2017-10-24ghsa · osvUS
Directory traversal vulnerability in `actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/static.rb` in Action Pack in Ruby on Rails 3.x before 3.2.20, 4.0.x before 4.0.11, 4.1.x before 4.1.7, and 4.2.x before 4.2.0.beta3, when `serve_static_assets` is enabled, allows remote attackers to determine the existence of files outside the application root via a `/..%2F` sequence.

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2014-11-08modified 2026-06-17

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references (10)

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