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Ubuntu: (CVE-2015-7581): rails vulnerability

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Ubuntu: (CVE-2015-7581): rails vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/16/2016
Created
11/21/2024
Added
11/19/2024
Modified
11/19/2024

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.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-rails

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