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HIGH CVSS 2.0
CVE-2019-5419
Action View (Rails) CPU Denial of Service Vulnerability
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.

INFO

Published Date :

March 27, 2019, 2:29 p.m.

Last Modified :

Nov. 21, 2024, 4:44 a.m.

Remotely Exploit :

Yes !

Source :

[email protected]
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2019-5419 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Redhat software_collections
2 Redhat cloudforms
1 Fedoraproject fedora
1 Debian debian_linux
1 Opensuse leap
1 Rubyonrails rails
: Total Affected Vendor : 5 | Products : 6
CVSS Scores
The Common Vulnerability Scoring System is a standardized framework for assessing the severity of vulnerabilities in software and systems. We collect and displays CVSS scores from various sources for each CVE.
Score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Source
CVSS 2.0 HIGH [email protected]
CVSS 3.1 HIGH [email protected]
Solution
This vulnerability can be remediated by upgrading affected Ruby on Rails packages.
  • Upgrade the affected Ruby on Rails packages.
  • Apply the appropriate vendor-recommended patch.
Public PoC/Exploit Available at Github

CVE-2019-5419 has a 2 public PoC/Exploit available at Github. Go to the Public Exploits tab to see the list.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information, practical solutions, and valuable tools related to CVE-2019-5419.

URL Resource
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00011.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00025.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00001.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/03/22/1 Exploit Mailing List Mitigation Patch Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0796 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1147 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1149 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1289 Third Party Advisory
https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/rubyonrails-security/GN7w9fFAQeI
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00042.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Y43636TH4D6T46IC6N2RQVJTRFJAAYGA/
https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2019/3/13/Rails-4-2-5-1-5-1-6-2-have-been-released/ Patch Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00011.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00025.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00001.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/03/22/1 Exploit Mailing List Mitigation Patch Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0796 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1147 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1149 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1289 Third Party Advisory
https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/rubyonrails-security/GN7w9fFAQeI
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00042.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Y43636TH4D6T46IC6N2RQVJTRFJAAYGA/
https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2019/3/13/Rails-4-2-5-1-5-1-6-2-have-been-released/ Patch Third Party Advisory
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

While CVE identifies specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2019-5419 is associated with the following CWEs:

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC) stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2019-5419 weaknesses.

CAPEC-147: XML Ping of the Death XML Ping of the Death CAPEC-227: Sustained Client Engagement Sustained Client Engagement CAPEC-492: Regular Expression Exponential Blowup Regular Expression Exponential Blowup CAPEC-125: Flooding Flooding CAPEC-130: Excessive Allocation Excessive Allocation CAPEC-147: XML Ping of the Death XML Ping of the Death CAPEC-197: Exponential Data Expansion Exponential Data Expansion CAPEC-229: Serialized Data Parameter Blowup Serialized Data Parameter Blowup CAPEC-230: Serialized Data with Nested Payloads Serialized Data with Nested Payloads CAPEC-231: Oversized Serialized Data Payloads Oversized Serialized Data Payloads CAPEC-469: HTTP DoS HTTP DoS CAPEC-482: TCP Flood TCP Flood CAPEC-486: UDP Flood UDP Flood CAPEC-487: ICMP Flood ICMP Flood CAPEC-488: HTTP Flood HTTP Flood CAPEC-489: SSL Flood SSL Flood CAPEC-490: Amplification Amplification CAPEC-491: Quadratic Data Expansion Quadratic Data Expansion CAPEC-493: SOAP Array Blowup SOAP Array Blowup CAPEC-494: TCP Fragmentation TCP Fragmentation CAPEC-495: UDP Fragmentation UDP Fragmentation CAPEC-496: ICMP Fragmentation ICMP Fragmentation CAPEC-528: XML Flood XML Flood

We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).

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mpgn/Rails-doubletap-RCE

RCE on Rails 5.2.2 using a path traversal (CVE-2019-5418) and a deserialization of Ruby objects (CVE-2019-5420)

rails

Ruby JavaScript CoffeeScript CSS HTML

Updated: 2 months, 3 weeks ago
132 stars 27 fork 27 watcher
Born at : March 23, 2019, 2:52 a.m. This repo has been linked 3 different CVEs too.
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mpgn/CVE-2019-5418

CVE-2019-5418 - File Content Disclosure on Ruby on Rails

rails

Updated: 1 month ago
198 stars 21 fork 21 watcher
Born at : March 16, 2019, 11:58 a.m. This repo has been linked 2 different CVEs too.

Results are limited to the first 15 repositories due to potential performance issues.

The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2019-5419 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

Results are limited to the first 20 news articles due to potential performance issues.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2019-5419 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

    Nov. 21, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00011.html
    Added Reference http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00025.html
    Added Reference http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00001.html
    Added Reference http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/03/22/1
    Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0796
    Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1147
    Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1149
    Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1289
    Added Reference https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/rubyonrails-security/GN7w9fFAQeI
    Added Reference https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00042.html
    Added Reference https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Y43636TH4D6T46IC6N2RQVJTRFJAAYGA/
    Added Reference https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2019/3/13/Rails-4-2-5-1-5-1-6-2-have-been-released/
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Nov. 07, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference HackerOne https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/rubyonrails-security/GN7w9fFAQeI [No types assigned]
    Added Reference HackerOne https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Y43636TH4D6T46IC6N2RQVJTRFJAAYGA/ [No types assigned]
    Removed Reference HackerOne https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rubyonrails-security/GN7w9fFAQeI
    Removed Reference HackerOne https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/Y43636TH4D6T46IC6N2RQVJTRFJAAYGA/
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    Oct. 16, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Removed CVSS V3 NIST AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
    Added CVSS V3.1 NIST AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
    Changed Reference Type http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00011.html No Types Assigned http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00011.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00025.html No Types Assigned http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00025.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00001.html No Types Assigned http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00001.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1147 No Types Assigned https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1147 Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1149 No Types Assigned https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1149 Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1289 No Types Assigned https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1289 Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/Y43636TH4D6T46IC6N2RQVJTRFJAAYGA/ No Types Assigned https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/Y43636TH4D6T46IC6N2RQVJTRFJAAYGA/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
    Removed CWE NIST CWE-400
    Added CWE NIST CWE-770
    Changed CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:redhat:cloudforms:4.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:* OR *cpe:2.3:a:redhat:cloudforms:4.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:redhat:cloudforms:4.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:redhat:software_collections:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Oct. 09, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CWE HackerOne CWE-400
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Aug. 01, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00001.html [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jun. 07, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00025.html [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 29, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1289 [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 13, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1149 [No Types Assigned]
    Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1147 [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 10, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/Y43636TH4D6T46IC6N2RQVJTRFJAAYGA/ [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 08, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00011.html [No Types Assigned]
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    Apr. 23, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed Reference Type https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0796 No Types Assigned https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0796 Third Party Advisory
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:redhat:cloudforms:4.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Apr. 23, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0796 [No Types Assigned]
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Apr. 02, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V2 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
    Added CVSS V3 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
    Changed Reference Type https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2019/3/13/Rails-4-2-5-1-5-1-6-2-have-been-released/ No Types Assigned https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2019/3/13/Rails-4-2-5-1-5-1-6-2-have-been-released/ Patch, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/03/22/1 No Types Assigned http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/03/22/1 Exploit, Mailing List, Mitigation, Patch, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00042.html No Types Assigned https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00042.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rubyonrails-security/GN7w9fFAQeI No Types Assigned https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rubyonrails-security/GN7w9fFAQeI Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
    Added CWE CWE-400
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 4.2.11.1 *cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 5.0.0 up to (excluding) 5.0.7.2 *cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 5.1.0 up to (excluding) 5.1.6.2 *cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 5.2.0 up to (excluding) 5.2.2.1
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Mar. 31, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00042.html [No Types Assigned]
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
Vulnerability Scoring Details
Base CVSS Score: 7.5
Attack Vector
Attack Complexity
Privileges Required
User Interaction
Scope
Confidentiality Impact
Integrity Impact
Availability Impact
Base CVSS Score: 7.8
Access Vector
Access Complexity
Authentication
Confidentiality Impact
Integrity Impact
Availability Impact
Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

9.06 }} 4.94%

score

0.92289

percentile