Arbitrary File Read Affecting actionview package, versions >=4.2.11, <4.2.11.1>=5.0.7, <5.0.7.2>=5.1.6, <5.1.6.2>=5.2.2, <5.2.2.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
97.31% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUBY-ACTIONVIEW-173784
  • published13 Mar 2019
  • disclosed13 Mar 2019
  • creditJohn Hawthorn

Introduced: 13 Mar 2019

CVE-2019-5418  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-538  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade actionview to version 4.2.11.1, 5.0.7.2, 5.1.6.2, 5.2.2.1 or higher.

Overview

actionview is a simple, battle-tested conventions and helpers for building web pages.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary File Read. Specially crafted accept headers in combination with calls to render file: could cause arbitrary files on the target server to be rendered, disclosing the file contents.

CVSS Scores

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