CVE-2019-5418 (GCVE-0-2019-5418)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-03-27 13:38 – Updated: 2025-10-21 23:45- CWE-22 - Path Traversal (CWE-22)
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rails | https://github.com/rails/rails |
Affected:
5.2.2.1
Affected: 5.1.6.2 Affected: 5.0.7.2 Affected: 4.2.11.1 |
guessed |
CISA
Known Exploited Vulnerability - GCVE BCP-07 Compliant
Exploited: Yes
Timestamps
Scope
Evidence
Type: Vendor Report
Signal: Successful Exploitation
Confidence: 80%
Source: cisa-kev
Details
| Cwes | CWE-22 |
|---|---|
| Feed | CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog |
| Product | Ruby on Rails |
| Due Date | 2025-07-28 |
| Date Added | 2025-07-07 |
| Vendorproject | Rails |
| Vulnerabilityname | Rails Ruby on Rails Path Traversal Vulnerability |
| Knownransomwarecampaignuse | Unknown |
References
Previdian
Known Exploited Vulnerability - GCVE BCP-07 Compliant
Exploited: Yes
Timestamps
Scope
Evidence
Type: Public Report
Signal: Successful Exploitation
Confidence: 70%
Source: kevintel
Details
| Feed | KEVIntel (kevintel.com) |
|---|---|
| Title | There is a File Content Disclosure vulnerability in Action View <5.2.2.1, <5.1.6.2, <5.0.7.2, <4.2.11.1 and v3 where specially crafted... |
| Vendor | Rails |
| Product | https://github.com/rails/rails |
| Added Date | 2026-06-01T10:36:30.850Z |
| Cvss Score | 7.5 |
| Epss Score | 0.98507 |
| Cvss Severity | HIGH |
| Epss Percentile | 0.99914 |
| Used In Malware | unknown |
| Ahead Of Cisa Kev |
|
| Not Yet In Cisa Kev | False |
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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.