CVE-2016-0751

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/http/mime_type.rb in Action Pack in Ruby on Rails before 3.2.22.1, 4.0.x and 4.1.x before 4.1.14.1, 4.2.x before 4.2.5.1, and 5.x before 5.0.0.beta1.1 does not properly restrict use of the MIME type cache, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted HTTP Accept header.

actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/http/mime_type.rb in Action Pack in Ruby on Rails before 3.2.22.1, 4.0.x and 4.1.x before 4.1.14.1, 4.2.x before 4.2.5.1, and 5.x before 5.0.0.beta1.1 does not properly restrict use of the MIME type cache, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted HTTP Accept header.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

Type

Ruby

First reported 9 years ago

2016-02-16 02:59:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-08-08 15:43:00

Affected Software

Ruby on Rails Rails 4.0.0

4.0.0

Rubyonrails Rails 4.0.0 Beta

4.0.0

Ruby on Rails Rails 4.0.0 Release Candidate 1

4.0.0

Ruby on Rails Rails 4.0.0 Release Candidate 2

4.0.0

Ruby on Rails Rails 4.0.1

4.0.1

Ruby on Rails Rails 4.0.1 Release Candidate 1

4.0.1

Ruby on Rails Rails 4.0.1 Release Candidate 2

4.0.1

Ruby on Rails Rails 4.0.1 Release Candidate 3

4.0.1

Ruby on Rails Rails 4.0.1 Release Candidate 4

4.0.1

Ruby on Rails Rails 4.0.2

4.0.2

Ruby on Rails Rails 4.0.3

4.0.3

Ruby on Rails Rails 4.0.5

4.0.5

Ruby on Rails Rails 4.0.6 Release Candidate 1

4.0.6

Ruby on Rails Rails 4.0.6 Release Candidate 2

4.0.6

Ruby on Rails Rails 4.0.6 Release Candidate 3

4.0.6

Ruby on Rails Rails 4.0.7

4.0.7

Ruby on Rails Rails 4.0.8

4.0.8

Ruby on Rails Rails 4.0.9

4.0.9

Ruby on Rails Rails 4.0.10 Release Candidate 1

4.0.10

Ruby on Rails Rails 4.1.0

4.1.0

Ruby on Rails Rails 4.1.0 Beta1

4.1.0

Ruby on Rails Rails 4.1.1

4.1.1

Ruby on Rails Rails 4.1.2 Release Candidate 1

4.1.2

Ruby on Rails Rails 4.1.2 Release Candidate 2

4.1.2

Ruby on Rails Rails 4.1.2 Release Candidate 3

4.1.2

Ruby on Rails Rails 4.1.3

4.1.3

Ruby on Rails Rails 4.1.4

4.1.4

Ruby on Rails Rails 4.1.5

4.1.5

Ruby on Rails Rails 4.1.6 Release Candidate 1

4.1.6

Ruby on Rails Rails 4.1.7

4.1.7

Ruby on Rails Rails 4.1.8

4.1.8

Ruby on Rails Rails 4.2.0 Beta1

4.2.0

Ruby on Rails Rails 4.2.0 Beta2

4.2.0

Ruby on Rails Rails 4.2.0 Beta3

4.2.0

Ruby on Rails Rails 4.2.0 Beta4

4.2.0

Ruby on Rails Rails 4.2.0 Release Candidate 1

4.2.0

Ruby on Rails Rails 4.2.0 Release Candidate 2

4.2.0

Ruby on Rails Rails 4.2.0 Release Candidate 3

4.2.0

Ruby on Rails Rails 4.2.1 Release Candidate 1

4.2.1

Ruby on Rails Rails 4.2.1 Release Candidate 2

4.2.1

Ruby on Rails Rails 4.2.1 Release Candidate 3

4.2.1

Ruby on Rails Rails 4.2.1 Release Candidate 4

4.2.1

Ruby on Rails Rails 4.2.2

4.2.2

Ruby on Rails Rails 4.2.3 Release Candidate 1

4.2.3

Ruby on Rails Rails 4.2.4 Release Candidate 1

4.2.4

Ruby on Rails Rails 4.2.5 Release Candidate 1

4.2.5

Ruby on Rails Rails 4.2.5 Release Candidate 2

4.2.5

Ruby on Rails Rails 5.0.0 Beta1

5.0.0

References

FEDORA-2016-94e71ee673

FEDORA-2016-f486068393

SUSE-SU-2016:1146

openSUSE-SU-2016:0363

openSUSE-SU-2016:0372

RHSA-2016:0296

DSA-3464

[oss-security] 20160125 [CVE-2016-0751] Possible Object Leak and Denial of Service attack in Action Pack

81800

1034816

[ruby-security-ann] 20160125 [CVE-2016-0751] Possible Object Leak and Denial of Service attack in Action Pack

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