CVE-2014-0130
Published 2014-05-07 · Updated 2026-06-17 · Source secalert@redhat.com
Summary
CVE-2014-0130 is a high-severity (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability in Rails Ruby on Rails. CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on March 25, 2022, which means exploitation in the wild has been confirmed; US federal agencies had to remediate it by April 15, 2022. CISA does not currently list it as used in ransomware campaigns. Rails has 3 vulnerabilities in the KEV catalog, 0 of them linked to ransomware.
All 3 known-exploited Rails vulnerabilities →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.
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CISA Known-Exploited Vulnerability
Product: Rails — Ruby on Rails
Name: Ruby on Rails Directory Traversal Vulnerability
Date added: 2022-03-25 · Due: 2022-04-15
Required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.
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

