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CVE-2019-5419
There is a possible denial of service vulnerability in Action View (Rails) <5.2.2.1, <5.1.6.2, <5.0.7.2, <4.2.11.1 where specially crafted…
High7.5EPSS 8.4%
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- hackerone
Description
There is a possible denial of service vulnerability in Action View (Rails) <5.2.2.1, <5.1.6.2, <5.0.7.2, <4.2.11.1 where specially crafted accept headers can cause action view to consume 100% cpu and make the server unresponsive.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 8.4% · top 5.0% of all CVEs (6 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
Rails · https://github.com/rails/rails
- affected 5.2.2.1
- affected 5.1.6.2
- affected 5.0.7.2
- affected 4.2.11.1
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- RubyGemsactionviewGHSA-m63j-wh5w-c252 (opens in a new tab)
References (12)
- [oss-security] 20190322 [CVE-2019-5418] Amendment: Possible Remote Code Execution Exploit in Action View (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2019/3/13/Rails-4-2-5-1-5-1-6-2-have-been-released/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/rubyonrails-security/GN7w9fFAQeI (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20190331 [SECURITY] [DLA 1739-1] rails security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:0796 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2019:1344 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- FEDORA-2019-1cfe24db5c (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:1149 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:1147 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:1289 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2019:1527 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2019:1824 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_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-m63j-wh5w-c252 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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