CVE detail

CVE-2019-5418 — Rails Ruby on Rails Path Traversal Vulnerability

Published 2025-07-07 · Modified 2025-07-07 · Source kev

HIGH

severity

CVSS-derived band

n/a

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.9851

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

100.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

LISTED

CISA KEV

due 2025-07-28

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.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

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