What is CVE-2014-7819?

CVE-2014-7819 is a vulnerability in Sprockets Project, classified under Path Traversal. Published 2014-11-08.

Is CVE-2014-7819 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Path Traversal in Sprockets Project

CVE-2014-7819

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.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

Published 2014-11-08 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.039 (90.1th percentile), scored 2026-10-20.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 90th percentile — 90.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.039 · newest: 0.039 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Sprockets Project — versions 2.6.0, 3.0.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

Public proof-of-concept exploits

tdunning/github-advisory-parser

References

lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00105.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00111.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
groups.google.com/forum/message/raw (mailing-list, Third Party Advisory)
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00103.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00110.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
groups.google.com/forum/message/raw (mailing-list, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2014-7819?: CVE-2014-7819 is a vulnerability in Sprockets Project, classified under Path Traversal. Published 2014-11-08.
Is CVE-2014-7819 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.