Rails Active Storage has possible Path Traversal in DiskService
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 8epss 0.6%
exploitation probability
0.6%top 56% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
Active Storage allows users to attach cloud and local files in Rails applications. Prior to versions 8.1.2.1, 8.0.4.1, and 7.2.3.1, Active Storage's `DiskService#path_for` does not validate that the resolved filesystem path remains within the storage root directory. If a blob key containing path traversal sequences (e.g. `../`) is used, it could allow reading, writing, or deleting arbitrary files on the server. Blob keys are expected to be trusted strings, but some applications could be passing user input as keys and would be affected. Versions 8.1.2.1, 8.0.4.1, and 7.2.3.1 contain a patch.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U
Affected products
rails · activestorageReferences
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-33195https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2450546https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/4933c1e3b8c1bb04925d60347be9f69270392f2chttps://github.com/rails/rails/commit/9b06fbc0f504b8afe333f33d19548f3b85fbe655https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/a290c8a1ec189d793aa6d7f2570b6a763f675348https://github.com/rails/rails/releases/tag/v7.2.3.1https://github.com/rails/rails/releases/tag/v8.0.4.1https://github.com/rails/rails/releases/tag/v8.1.2.1https://github.com/rails/rails/security/advisories/GHSA-9xrj-h377-fr87https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-33195.json