Sprockets allows access to files outside root
Original title: USN-8990-1: Sprockets vulnerability
A remote attacker can access files outside the application's root directory.
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-8990-1 reports that Sprockets incorrectly handled certain specially crafted requests when the Sprockets server was used in production. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to access files outside of the application's root directory.
Impact: access files outside the application's root directory
From the original article
It was discovered that Sprockets incorrectly handled certain specially crafted requests when the Sprockets server was used in production. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to access files outside of the application's root directory.
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