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CVE-2016-0751

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
Publication date:
16/02/2016
Last modified:
12/04/2025

Description

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.

Impact

Vector 3.x
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.50 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x
7.50
Severity 3.x
HIGH
Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
5.00
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:4.0.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:4.0.0:beta:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:4.0.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:4.0.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:4.0.1:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:4.0.1:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:4.0.1:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:4.0.1:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:4.0.1:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:4.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:4.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:4.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:4.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:4.0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:4.0.6:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*

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