How severe is CVE-2014-0130?

CVE-2014-0130 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 7.5 (HIGH). EPSS estimates a 53.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2014-0130: Ruby on Rails Directory Traversal Vulnerability

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Ruby on Rails Directory Traversal Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2022-03-25

Remediation due

2022-04-15

Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.

CISA notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-0130

Description

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA7.5 HIGH

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

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableno

Technical impacttotal

Exploitation Context

as of October 14, 2026

All KEV statistics→

CISA added CVE-2014-0130 to the KEV catalog 2,879 days after its CVE record was published.
It is one of 3 Rails entries in the CISA KEV catalog, and one of 2 added in 2022.
Its current EPSS score (53.7%) is higher than that of 51% of CISA KEV entries.

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
-	-	n/a

References

4 Links

Vendor advisories

RHSA-2014:1863

Mailing lists

[rubyonrails-security] 20140506 [CVE-2014-0130] Directory Traversal Vulnerability With Certain Route Configurations

Vulnerability databases

67244

Other references

http://matasano.com/research/AnatomyOfRailsVuln-CVE-2014-0130.pdf

Record Details

Published

2014-05-07

Last updated

2025-10-22

Assigner (CNA)

redhat

Credited to

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