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Ruby on Rails Ruby on Rails: CVE-2019-5419: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Mar 27, 2019
Added
Jan 3, 2020
Modified
May 6, 2026

Description

There is a possible denial of service vulnerability in Action View (Rails) less than5.2.2.1, less than5.1.6.2, less than5.0.7.2, less than4.2.11.1 where specially crafted accept headers can cause action view to consume 100% cpu and make the server unresponsive.

Solution

ruby-on-rails-upgrade-latest

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