CVE-2016-2097: Possible Information Leak Vulnerability in ActionView
(updated )
Applications that pass unverified user input to the render
method in a controller may be vulnerable to an information leak vulnerability. Impacted code will look something like this: def index; render params[:id]; end
. Carefully crafted requests can cause the above code to render files from unexpected places like outside the application’s view directory, and can possibly escalate this to a remote code execution attack.
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