Directory traversal vulnerability in actionpack/lib/abstract_controller/base.rb in the implicit-render implementation in Ruby on Rails before 3.2.18, 4.0.x before 4.0.5, and 4.1.x before 4.1.1, when certain route globbing configurations are enabled, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a crafted request.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2014:1863 advisory.

    Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager acts as a proxy for handling     subscription information and software updates on client machines. Red Hat     Subscription Asset Manager is built on Ruby on Rails, a     model-view-controller (MVC) framework for web application development.
    Action Pack implements the controller and the view components.

    A directory traversal flaw was found in the way Ruby on Rails handled     wildcard segments in routes with implicit rendering. A remote attacker     could use this flaw to retrieve arbitrary local files accessible to a Ruby     on Rails application using the aforementioned routes via a specially     crafted request. (CVE-2014-0130)

    A flaw was found in the way Ruby on Rails handled hashes in certain     queries. A remote attacker could use this flaw to perform a denial of     service (resource consumption) attack by sending specially crafted queries     that would result in the creation of Ruby symbols, which were never garbage     collected. (CVE-2013-1854)

    Two cross-site scripting (XSS) flaws were found in Action Pack. A remote     attacker could use these flaws to conduct XSS attacks against users of an     application using Action Pack. (CVE-2013-1855, CVE-2013-1857)

    It was discovered that the internationalization component of Ruby on Rails     could, under certain circumstances, return a fallback HTML string that     contained user input. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to     perform a reflective cross-site scripting (XSS) attack by providing a     specially crafted input to an application using the aforementioned     component. (CVE-2013-4491)

    A denial of service flaw was found in the header handling component of     Action View. A remote attacker could send strings in specially crafted     headers that would be cached indefinitely, which would result in all     available system memory eventually being consumed. (CVE-2013-6414)

    It was found that the number_to_currency Action View helper did not     properly escape the unit parameter. An attacker could use this flaw to     perform a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack on an application that uses     data submitted by a user in the unit parameter. (CVE-2013-6415)

    Red Hat would like to thank Ruby on Rails upstream for reporting these     issues. Upstream acknowledges Ben Murphy as the original reporter of     CVE-2013-1854, Charlie Somerville as the original reporter of     CVE-2013-1855, Alan Jenkins as the original reporter of CVE-2013-1857,     Peter McLarnan as the original reporter of CVE-2013-4491, Toby Hsieh as the     original reporter of CVE-2013-6414, and Ankit Gupta as the original     reporter of CVE-2013-6415.

    All Subscription Asset Manager users are advised to upgrade to these     updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

- fix CVE-2014-0130: rubygem-actionpack: directory     traversal issue (bnc#876714) CVE-2014-0130.patch:
    contains the fix

Fix for CVE-2014-0130 - Avoid directory traversal

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Action Pack, a component of Ruby on Rails.

  - CVE-2014-0081     actionview/lib/action_view/helpers/number_helper.rb     contains multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities

  - CVE-2014-0082     actionpack/lib/action_view/template/text.rb performs     symbol interning on MIME type strings, allowing remote     denial-of-service attacks via increased memory     consumption.

  - CVE-2014-0130     A directory traversal vulnerability in     actionpack/lib/abstract_controller/base.rb allows remote     attackers to read arbitrary files.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
79326	RHEL 6 : Subscription Asset Manager 1.4 (RHSA-2014:1863)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
75375	openSUSE Security Update : rubygem-actionpack-3_2 (openSUSE-SU-2014:0718-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
75374	openSUSE Security Update : rubygem-actionpack-3_2 (openSUSE-SU-2014:0720-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
74167	Fedora 19 : rubygem-actionpack-3.2.13-6.fc19 (2014-6127)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
74166	Fedora 20 : rubygem-actionpack-4.0.0-4.fc20 (2014-6098)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
74043	Debian DSA-2929-1 : ruby-actionpack-3.2 - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium

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