CISA KEV entry
CVE-2019-5418Rails Ruby on Rails Path Traversal Vulnerability
Rails Ruby on Rails. Added to the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue on 7 July 2025.
Data status: a source is stale
Last synced CISA catalogue version 2026.11.04 (released 4 November 2026) 1,768 entries Updated manually
- Date added
- 2025-07-07
- Federal due date
- 2025-07-28 21 days after it was added; passed at the sync of 2026-11-05
- Known ransomware use
- Unknown
- Forensic triage (BOD 26-04)
- No
- CVSS
- 7.5 High CVSS 3.1, scored by nvd@nist.gov
- EPSS
- 98.50% percentile 99.9, scored 2026-11-04
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation active, automatable yes, technical impact partial
- NVD status
- Analyzed published 2019-03-27, 2294 days before the KEV listing
BOD 26-04 remediation window
With CISA's SSVC answers for this CVE (automatable: yes, technical impact: partial), BOD 26-04 Table 1 gives 3 days on a publicly exposed asset (row 2) and 14 days on an asset that is not publicly exposed (row 10) S06. The catalogue due date, 21 days after the date added, was set before BOD 26-04 took effect on 10 June 2026 S06. The directive binds US federal civilian executive branch agencies only.
What CISA says
Short description
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.
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.
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
CWE in the catalogue
CWE-22
Official links
- CISA KEV catalogue entry cisa.gov
- NVD record nvd.nist.gov
Vendor advisory and patch links
References NVD tags Vendor Advisory or Patch, exactly as NVD lists them.
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/03/22/1 Mailing List, Mitigation, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2019/3/13/Rails-4-2-5-1-5-1-6-2-have-been-released/ Broken Link, Patch, Vendor Advisory; NVD marks this link broken
- 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/ Patch, Vendor Advisory
Links in CISA's notes
NVD details
- CWE (NVD)
- CWE-22 by support@hackerone.com, NVD-CWE-noinfo by nvd@nist.gov
- CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N- CVSS versions in NVD
- V2, V31
- Last modified in NVD
- 2026-06-17T02:37:39.103
Where each value comes from
| Field | Source | Fetched, UTC | State |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catalogue fields | CISA KEV JSON, version 2026.11.04 | 2026-11-05 11:38 | current |
| NVD published, status, CVSS, CWE, vendor links | NVD CVE API 2.0; CVSS: NVD (nvd@nist.gov) | 2026-11-03 12:37 | current at 2026-11-05 11:38 |
| EPSS | FIRST EPSS API, scores of 2026-11-04 | 2026-11-05 11:38 | current |
| CISA SSVC | CISA ADP (via NVD), record of 2025-07-17 | 2026-11-03 12:37 | current |
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