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 accept headers can cause action view to consume 100% cpu and
02 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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 8.77% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 95.0% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2019-03-27 13:43Z7 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-04 19:54Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2019-01-04
- Assigning CNA
- hackerone
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- c139bd4d1933bef5f4c194e71e8f07079a25f6419a12c437e5db5c9f7486a5f8
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20190322 [CVE-2019-5418] Amendment: Possible Remote Code Execution Exploit in Action Viewhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/03/22/1
- weblog.rubyonrails.orghttps://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2019/3/13/Rails-4-2-5-1-5-1-6-2-have-been-released/
- groups.google.comhttps://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/rubyonrails-security/GN7w9fFAQeI
- lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20190331 [SECURITY] [DLA 1739-1] rails security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00042.html
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2019:0796https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0796
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2019:1344http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00011.html
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2019-1cfe24db5chttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Y43636TH4D6T46IC6N2RQVJTRFJAAYGA/
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2019:1149https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1149
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2019:1147https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1147
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2019:1289https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1289
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2019:1527http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00025.html
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2019:1824http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00001.html
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- rails Fixed in 2:5.2.2.1+dfsg-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- rails Fixed in 2:5.2.2.1+dfsg-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- rails Fixed in 2:5.2.2.1+dfsg-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS
- rails No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS
- rails No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.