CVE-2011-2929 (Medium) detected in actionpack-3.0.9.gem

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CVE-2011-2929 - Medium Severity Vulnerability

Vulnerable Library - actionpack-3.0.9.gem

Web apps on Rails. Simple, battle-tested conventions for building and testing MVC web applications. Works with any Rack-compatible server.

Library home page: https://rubygems.org/gems/actionpack-3.0.9.gem

Dependency Hierarchy:

• rails-3.0.9.gem (Root Library)
  • railties-3.0.9.gem
    • ❌ actionpack-3.0.9.gem (Vulnerable Library)

Found in HEAD commit: 0c785fd9400921392b8ee5e3e166f30364359ecc

Found in base branch: master

Vulnerability Details

The template selection functionality in actionpack/lib/action_view/template/resolver.rb in Ruby on Rails 3.0.x before 3.0.10 and 3.1.x before 3.1.0.rc6 does not properly handle glob characters, which allows remote attackers to render arbitrary views via a crafted URL, related to a "filter skipping vulnerability."

Publish Date: 2011-08-29

URL: CVE-2011-2929

CVSS 2 Score Details (5.0)

Base Score Metrics not available

Suggested Fix

Type: Upgrade version

Origin: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-2929

Release Date: 2011-08-29

Fix Resolution: 3.0.10

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