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CVE-2019-5418GHSA-86G5-2WH3-GC9J

There is a File Content Disclosure vulnerability in Action View <5.2.2.1, <5.1.6.2, <5.0.7.2, <4.2.11.1 and v3 where specially crafted accep

Published
Last modified
published
Listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 5.2.2.1, 4.2.11.1, 5.1.6.2, 5.0.7.2
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

The Action View component of Ruby on Rails, a widely used web framework, is affected by this vulnerability. An attacker who sends specially crafted accept headers to an affected application can read the contents of arbitrary files on the server's filesystem.

Summarized by anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5. Verify details against the original sources.

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There is a File Content Disclosure vulnerability in Action View <5.2.2.1, <5.1.6.2, <5.0.7.2, <4.2.11.1 and v3 where specially crafted accept headers can cause contents of arbitrary files on the target system's filesystem to be exposed.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. Added to CISA KEV

    CISA has evidence of exploitation in the wild

  3. CISA remediation deadline

    Due date for US federal agencies to patch

  4. Record last updated
  5. EPSS reached 10%

    FIRST estimates at least a 10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Affected versions

  • Rails https://github.com/rails/rails

    5.2.2.1, 5.1.6.2, 5.0.7.2, 4.2.11.1

  • actionviewRubyGems

    From 5.2.0 · fixed in 5.2.2.1

  • actionviewRubyGems

    From 4.0.0 · fixed in 4.2.11.1

  • actionviewRubyGems

    From 5.1.0 · fixed in 5.1.6.2

  • actionviewRubyGems

    From 5.0.0 · fixed in 5.0.7.2

References 12

Exploit-DB

packetstormsecurity.com

openwall.com

weblog.rubyonrails.org

groups.google.com

lists.debian.org

access.redhat.com

lists.opensuse.org

lists.fedoraproject.org