CVE-2015-7581 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Project Actionpack

CWE-399CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling10 documents8 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
7.1%
top 8.44%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Rubyonrails RailsActionpack Project Actionpack
Timeline
PublishedFeb 16
Latest updateOct 24

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages3 packages

▶RubyGemsactionpack_project/actionpack4.0.0 — 4.2.5.1
▶Debianrubyonrails/rails< 2:4.2.5.1-1+3
▶NVDrubyonrails/rails27 versions+26

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
OSV
actionpack is vulnerable to denial of service because of a wildcard controller route↗2017-10-24
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GHSA
actionpack is vulnerable to denial of service because of a wildcard controller route↗2017-10-24
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OSV
CVE-2015-7581: actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/routing/route_set↗2016-02-16
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CVEList
CVE-2015-7581: actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/routing/route_set↗2016-02-16
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
rubygem-actionpack: Object leak vulnerability for wildcard controller routes in Action Pack↗2016-01-25
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Debian
CVE-2015-7581: rails - actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/routing/route_set.rb in Action Pack in Ruby on Ra...↗2015
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💬Community

3
HackerOne
DoS Attack in Controller Lookup Code↗2016-03-13
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Bugzilla
CVE-2015-7581 rubygem-actionpack: Object leak vulnerability for wildcard controller routes in Action Pack [fedora-all]↗2016-01-26
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Bugzilla
CVE-2015-7581 rubygem-actionpack: Object leak vulnerability for wildcard controller routes in Action Pack↗2016-01-26
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CVE-2015-7581 — Project Actionpack vulnerability | cvebase