SARA / Free Tools / KEV / CVE-2019-5418

CVE-2019-5418 on CISA KEV

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 accept headers can cause contents of arbitrary files on the target system's filesystem to be exposed.

CISA KEV — Actively Exploited

Rails Ruby on Rails Path Traversal Vulnerability

Vendor / Product
— / Rails / Ruby on Rails
Added to KEV
2025-07-07
BOD 22-01 due
2025-07-28
Ransomware use
Unknown
CVSS / EPSS
· EPSS 94.32%

01What CISA says about this vulnerability

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 accept headers can cause contents of arbitrary files on the target system's filesystem to be exposed.

02Required action — verbatim from CISA

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

03Notes & references

04SARA's analyst layer — why this matters

This vulnerability is currently on the CISA KEV list, which CISA only adds CVEs to when there is reliable evidence of active exploitation in the wild. For federal civilian agencies, BOD 22-01 requires remediation by the due date above. For everyone else, KEV is the strongest "patch immediately" signal you can get from public threat intel.

05Affected products (summary)

VendorProductVersions
Railshttps://github.com/rails/rails5.2.2.1, 5.1.6.2, 5.0.7.2, 4.2.11.1

06Detection

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