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Vulnerability IntelligenceCVE-2015-7581

CVE-2015-7581

HIGH7.5

actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/routing/route_set

Published Feb 16, 2016

Modified 1 years ago

Details

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.

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178043.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178067.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00053.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00043.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0296.html

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3464

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/25/16

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81677

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034816

https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=ruby-security-ann/dthJ5wL69JE/IdvCimtZEgAJ

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-7581

CVSS Analysis

CVSS v3.0

7.5

Exploitability

Attack Vector

NetworkAV:N

Attack Complexity

LowAC:L

Privileges Required

NonePR:N

User Interaction

NoneUI:N

Scope

Scope

UnchangedS:U

Impact

Confidentiality

NoneC:N

Integrity

NoneI:N

Availability

HighA:H

7.5/CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Ecosystems

Timeline

PublishedFeb 16, 2016

ModifiedAug 6, 2024

CVE-2015-7581 | Mondoo Vulnerability Intelligence