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Rails Cv AppApplication · Rails Cv App Project

CVE-2014-125033

HIGH · 7.5 CVSS v3.1 Published 2023-01-02
Fix available
A fix is available. Upgrade to 2014-11-16 or later.
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84/100
Remediation priority · High
Remotely reachable No privileges Zero-click Patch available

Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

NVD · unedited
A vulnerability was found in rails-cv-app. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file app/controllers/uploaded_files_controller.rb. The manipulation with the input ../../../etc/passwd leads to path traversal: '../filedir'. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The patch is identified as 0d20362af0a5f8a126f67c77833868908484a863. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. VDB-217178 is the identifier assigned to this vulnerability.

Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.

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NVD · CPE data
Rails Cv AppApplication
Affected:< 2014-11-16

CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.

From the vector
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

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dbcve · scoped
Upgrade available Upgrade to 2014-11-16 or later
Fixed in 2014-11-16
Vendor patch github.com →
Recommended fix High confidence

Use the code from commit 0d20362af0a5f8a126f67c77833868908484a863 or later

  1. Locate the vulnerable file app/controllers/uploaded_files_controller.rb in the rails-cv-app codebase
  2. Review the patch at https://github.com/bertrand-caron/rails-cv-app/commit/0d20362af0a5f8a126f67c77833868908484a863 to understand the fix
  3. Apply the patch changes to the uploaded_files_controller.rb file, which should add validation to prevent path traversal sequences (../) in file paths
  4. Alternatively, ensure the application is running using a version/commit after 2014-11-16
  5. Verify the fix by testing that file path inputs containing ../ sequences are properly sanitized or rejected

Generated from the published advisory — verify against the referenced sources before acting.

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