CVE-2014-7819
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-22
- EPSS score
- 3.9% (90th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2017-0153)
- Published
- November 8, 2014
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2017-0153 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- sprockets project / sprockets
- sprockets project / sprockets
- sprockets project / sprockets
- sprockets project / sprockets
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00103.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00105.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00110.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00111.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=rubyonrails-security/doAVp0YaTqY/aHFngBqNBoAJ(Third Party Advisory)
- https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=rubyonrails-security/wQBeGXqGs3E/JqUMB6fhh3gJ(Third Party Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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