CVE-2015-7581
actionpack is vulnerable to denial of service because of a wildcard controller route
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 8.5%
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.
How to fix CVE-2015-7581
To remediate CVE-2015-7581, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 2:4.2.5.1-1 or later
- —upgrade to 4.2.5.1 or later
Is CVE-2015-7581 being exploited?
Moderate — EPSS is 8.5%. Track this CVE but it's not at the top of the prioritisation list.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 2:4.2.5.1-1
- >= 4.0.0, < 4.2.5.1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |