CVE-2019-5418

UNKNOWNKnown Exploited

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability

https://web.archive.org/web/20190313201629/https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2019/3/13/Rails-4-2-5-1-5-1-6-2-have-been-released/ ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-5418

Remediation deadline: July 28, 2025

Description

Rails Ruby on Rails contains a path traversal vulnerability in Action View. Specially crafted accept headers in combination with calls to `render file:` can cause arbitrary files on the target server to be rendered, disclosing the file contents.

Timeline

Published:July 7th, 2025 12:00 AM

Last modified:July 7th, 2025 12:00 AM

Added to KEV:July 7th, 2025

CVSS Scoring

No CVSS v3 score available

Affected Software

From NVD CPE configuration data

Vendors

Rails

Products

Ruby on Rails

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-22

References & Reports

Advisories, patches, and third-party reports

No references available.

Source: CISA KEV + NVD · Data may lag official sources by up to one minute