Coverage › CVE-2019-5418
CVE-2019-5418 Unmapped
Rails Ruby on Rails Path Traversal Vulnerability
- Vendor / product
- Rails — Ruby on Rails
- Description (CISA)
- Rails Ruby on Rails contains a path traversal vulnerability in Action View. Specially crafted accept headers in combination with calls to `render file:` can cause arbitrary files on the target server to be rendered, disclosing the file contents.
- Added to KEV
- 2025-07-07
- Due date
- 2025-07-28
- Required action
- Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
- Known ransomware use
- Unknown
- CWE
- CWE-22
- CISA notes
- https://web.archive.org/web/20190313201629/https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2019/3/13/Rails-4-2-5-1-5-1-6-2-have-been-released/
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-5418 - Elsewhere
- cve.org · NVD · CISA KEV · JSON
ATT&CK techniques
No public source states how this vulnerability is exploited in ATT&CK terms.
The only authoritative CVE → ATT&CK mapping in the open — CTID's Mappings Explorer, pinned to a KEV snapshot of 2025-07-28 and ATT&CK 16.1 — does not include CVE-2019-5418. CISA's catalogue carries no technique field. kevmap does not infer techniques from the CWE (CWE-22) — here is why — and does not guess.
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