Known exploited vulnerability

CVE-2016-0752

Ruby on Rails Directory Traversal Vulnerability

What is affected

Vendor Rails
Product Ruby on Rails
Weakness CWE-22

The vulnerability

Directory traversal vulnerability in Action View in Ruby on Rails allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files.

Required action

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

US federal civilian agencies were required to act by 15 April 2022 under BOD 22-01. The deadline is a compliance date, not a measure of severity — it says nothing about how dangerous the flaw is to anyone else.

Where this comes from

Every field on this page is taken from the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, last synced 11 Nov 2026, 21:30. Nothing here is our own assessment. For the technical scoring, see the NVD record below.

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