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Fencer Intel
medium 5.0

CVE-2014-7819 json

sprockets vulnerable to Path Traversal

published 2014-11-08 12 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-33pp-3763-mrfp , EUVD-2017-0153

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.9%
EPSS 3.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 90%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in server.rb in Sprockets before 2.0.5, 2.1.x before 2.1.4, 2.2.x before 2.2.3, 2.3.x before 2.3.3, 2.4.x before 2.4.6, 2.5.x before 2.5.1, 2.6.x and 2.7.x before 2.7.1, 2.8.x before 2.8.3, 2.9.x before 2.9.4, 2.10.x before 2.10.2, 2.11.x before 2.11.3, 2.12.x before 2.12.3, and 3.x before 3.0.0.beta.3, as distributed with Ruby on Rails 3.x and 4.x, allow remote attackers to determine the existence of files outside the application root via a ../ (dot dot slash) sequence with (1) double slashes or (2) URL encoding.

Patch / fix

  • rubygems sprockets 2.0.5, 2.1.4, 2.2.3, 2.3.3, 2.4.6, 2.5.1, 2.7.1, 2.8.3, 2.9.4, 2.10.2, 2.11.3, 2.12.3
  • sprockets_project sprockets 2.0.5, 2.1.4, 2.2.3, 2.3.3, 2.4.6, 2.5.1, 2.7.1, 2.8.3, 2.9.4, 2.10.2, 2.11.3, 2.12.3
  • ruby-sprockets Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.12.3-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2014-7819

  • wmi cloudforms managementengine 5 1.3.14-1.el6cf
  • cfme cloudforms managementengine 5 5.4.0.5-1.el6cf
  • lshw cloudforms managementengine 5 B.02.16-4.el6cf
  • prince cloudforms managementengine 5 9.0r2-4.el6cf
  • libdnet cloudforms managementengine 5 1.12-11.el6cf
  • cfme-lib cloudforms managementengine 5 5.4.0.5-1.el6cf
  • lshw-gui cloudforms managementengine 5 B.02.16-4.el6cf
  • pyliblzma cloudforms managementengine 5 0.5.3-7.el6cf

red hat advisories RHBA-2015:1100

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2014-7819 updated cvss 5.0

rubygem-sprockets: arbitrary file existence disclosure

  • Red Hat OpenStack Foreman ruby193-rubygem-sprockets Red Hat OpenStack Platform 4 ruby193-rubygem-sprockets Red Hat Satellite 6 ruby193-rubygem-sprockets Red Hat Software Collections ror40-rubygem-sprockets, ruby193-rubygem-sprockets Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager ruby193-rubygem-sprockets
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 5.4 wmi 1.3.14-1.el6cf, cfme 5.4.0.5-1.el6cf, lshw B.02.16-4.el6cf, prince 9.0r2-4.el6cf, libdnet 1.12-11.el6cf, pyliblzma 0.5.3-7.el6cf, +21 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHBA-2015:1100

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.89% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 90% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
rubygems sprockets
<2.0.5
>=2.1.0, <2.1.4
>=2.2.0, <2.2.3
>=2.3.0, <2.3.3
>=2.4.0, <2.4.6
>=2.5.0, <2.5.1
>=2.6.0, <2.7.1
>=2.8.0, <2.8.3
>=2.9.0, <2.9.4
>=2.10.0, <2.10.2
>=2.11.0, <2.11.3
>=2.12.0, <2.12.3
2.0.5
2.1.4
2.2.3
2.3.3
2.4.6
2.5.1
2.7.1
2.8.3
2.9.4
2.10.2
2.11.3
2.12.3

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.