CVE-2015-7581

HIGH

Ruby on Rails <4.2.5.1, <5.0.0.beta1.1 - DoS

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/routing/route_set.rb in Action Pack in Ruby on Rails 4.x before 4.2.5.1 and 5.x before 5.0.0.beta1.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (superfluous caching and memory consumption) by leveraging an application's use of a wildcard controller route.

References (10)

Core 10
Core References
Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00043.html
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/25/16
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178043.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178067.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034816
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3464
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0296.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81677

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0854
EPSS Percentile 92.5%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-399
Status published
Products (28)
rubygems/actionpack 4.0.0 - 4.2.5.1RubyGems
rubyonrails/rails 4.0.0 (4 CPE variants)
rubyonrails/rails 4.0.1 (5 CPE variants)
rubyonrails/rails 4.0.2
rubyonrails/rails 4.0.3
rubyonrails/rails 4.0.4
rubyonrails/rails 4.0.5
rubyonrails/rails 4.0.6 (4 CPE variants)
rubyonrails/rails 4.0.7
rubyonrails/rails 4.0.8
... and 18 more
Published Feb 16, 2016
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026