CVE-2014-7829

mediumpriority · track · 21EPSS 0.042 · 91 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

4.16% (91st) EPSS

CVSS 5 · medium

Is it mine?

80 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 3.2.21, 4.0.x before 4.0.12, 4.1.x before 4.1.8, and 4.2.x before 4.2.0.beta4, when serve_static_assets is enabled, allows remote attackers to determine the existence of files outside the application root via vectors involving a \ (backslash) character, a similar issue to CVE-2014-7818.

cvss

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

5.0

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.05mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 2.9

v2.04.3mediumAV:N/AC:L/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 (80)

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-h56m-vwxc-3qpwDirectory traversal vulnerability in actionpack2017-10-24ghsa · osvUS
Directory traversal vulnerability in actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/static.rb in Action Pack in Ruby on Rails 3.x before 3.2.21, 4.0.x before 4.0.12, 4.1.x before 4.1.8, and 4.2.x before 4.2.0.beta4, when serve_static_assets is enabled, allows remote attackers to determine the existence of files outside the application root via vectors involving a \ (backslash) character, a similar issue to CVE-2014-7818.

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 2014-11-18modified 2026-06-17

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references (13)

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