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CVE-2015-7581
actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/routing/route_set.rb in Action Pack in Ruby on Rails 4.x before 4.2.5.1 and 5.x before 5.0.0.beta1.1 allows…
High7.5EPSS 6.7%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/routing/route_set.rb in Action Pack in Ruby on Rails 4.x before 4.2.5.1 and 5.x before 5.0.0.beta1.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (superfluous caching and memory consumption) by leveraging an application's use of a wildcard controller route.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 6.7% · top 6.1% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- RubyGemsactionpackGHSA-9h6g-gp95-x3q5 (opens in a new tab)
References (10)
- [ruby-security-ann] 20160125 [CVE-2015-7581] Object leak vulnerability for wildcard controller routes in Action Pack (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2016:0372 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20160125 [CVE-2015-7581] Object leak vulnerability for wildcard controller routes in Action Pack (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- FEDORA-2016-94e71ee673 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2016-f486068393 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2016:1146 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 1034816 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- DSA-3464 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:0296 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 81677 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-9h6g-gp95-x3q5 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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