CVE-2019-5418

unknown KEV
Published 2019-03-13 · Modified 2025-07-07
CVSS v3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:H
CVSS v2
VIR risk
2.5

Description

Rails Ruby on Rails contains a path traversal vulnerability in Action View. Specially crafted accept headers in combination with calls to `render file:` can cause arbitrary files on the target server to be rendered, disclosing the file contents.

CISA KEV

Vendor
Rails
Product
Ruby on Rails
Due date
2025-07-28

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
99%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cisa-kev — 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://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-5418

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-5418

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-5418.html

Exploits

Exploit-DB

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed2:5.2.2.1+dfsg-1
debian debianbullseyefixed2:5.2.2.1+dfsg-1
debian debianforkyfixed2:5.2.2.1+dfsg-1
debian debiansidfixed2:5.2.2.1+dfsg-1
debian debiantrixiefixed2:5.2.2.1+dfsg-1

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
ruby RubyGemsactionview<~> 4.2.11, >= 4.2.11.1~> 4.2.11, >= 4.2.11.1
ruby RubyGemsactionview>=5.2.0,<5.2.2.15.2.2.1
ruby RubyGemsactionview>=4.0.0,<4.2.11.14.2.11.1
ruby RubyGemsactionview>=5.1.0,<5.1.6.25.1.6.2
ruby RubyGemsactionview>=5.0.0,<5.0.7.25.0.7.2

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.