CVE-2019-5418
KEVHIGH 7.5EPSS 98.5%
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.
- Affected
- Rails · https://github.com/rails/rails
- CVSS v3.1 NVD
- 7.5 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N - CVSS v3.1 GitHub
- 7.5 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:H - CVSS v2.0 NVD
- 5.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N - EPSS
- 98.51% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 100th percentile
- CISA KEV
- added 2025-07-07
- Nuclei
- high
- Published
- 2019-03-27
- Updated
- 2025-10-21
Proof-of-concept exploits (11)
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152178/Rails-5.2.1-Arbitrary-File-Content-Disclosure…
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/03/22/1
- NotoriousRebel/RailRoadBandit3★ · 2019-04-08
- daehyeok0618/CVE-2019-54180★ · 2025-04-07
- kailing0220/CVE-2019-54182★ · 2022-10-17
- mpgn/CVE-2019-5418201★ · 2021-04-05
- mpgn/Rails-doubletap-RCE132★ · 2023-01-19
- omarkurt/CVE-2019-54185★ · 2019-03-18
- random-robbie/CVE-2019-54185★ · 2019-11-19
- ztgrace/CVE-2019-5418-Rails30★ · 2023-07-13
- 5t1ck/rails-doubletap-py0★ · 2026-10-13
Nuclei templates (1)
Metasploit modules (1)
ExploitDB entries (1)
Vulhub environments (1)
Exploit collections (1)
- CVE-2019-5418.yamlzan8in/afrog
Security advisories
- https://web.archive.org/web/20190313201629/https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2019/3/13/Rails…
- https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2019/3/13/Rails-4-2-5-1-5-1-6-2-have-been-released
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00011.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0796
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1147
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1149
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1289
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00042.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/…
- advisories/GHSA-86g5-2wh3-gc9j