CVE-2019-5418: Information Exposure

March 27, 2019 (updated October 11, 2019)

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

References

packetstormsecurity.com/files/152178/Rails-5.2.1-Arbitrary-File-Content-Disclosure.html
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-5418
weblog.rubyonrails.org/2019/3/13/Rails-4-2-5-1-5-1-6-2-have-been-released/
www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46585/

Code Behaviors & Features

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