actionpack is vulnerable to denial of service because of a wildcard controller route
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.
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Related CVEs.
| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2015-7581US | high7.5 | — | ||
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 ser… | ||||
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references
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178043.htmlWEB
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178067.htmlWEB
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00053.htmlWEB
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00043.htmlWEB
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0296.htmlWEB
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3464WEB
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/25/16WEB
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/actionpack/CVE-2015-7581.ymlWEB
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