CVE-2019-5418

high

Description

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.

References

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Y43636TH4D6T46IC6N2RQVJTRFJAAYGA/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00042.html

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1289

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1149

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1147

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0796

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/03/22/1

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00011.html

https://securityaffairs.com/179722/hacking/u-s-cisa-adds-mrlg-phpmailer-rails-ruby-on-rails-and-synacor-zimbra-collaboration-suite-flaws-to-its-known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog.html

https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2025/07/07/cisa-adds-four-known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog

https://thehackernews.com/2025/07/cisa-adds-four-critical-vulnerabilities.html

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46585/

https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2019/3/13/Rails-4-2-5-1-5-1-6-2-have-been-released/

https://web.archive.org/web/20190313201629/https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2019/3/13/Rails-4-2-5-1-5-1-6-2-have-been-released/

https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/rubyonrails-security/pFRKI96Sm8Q

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152178/Rails-5.2.1-Arbitrary-File-Content-Disclosure.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2019-03-27

Updated: 2025-07-09

Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV)

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.94327

Detections

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