CVE-2019-5418: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

March 27, 2019 (updated October 16, 2020)

There is a File Content Disclosure vulnerability in Action View and v3 where specially crafted accept headers can cause contents of arbitrary files on the target system’s filesystem to be exposed.

References

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1289
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-5418

Code Behaviors & Features

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