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.

Security fix for CVE-2015-7581 Security fix for CVE-2016-0751 Security fix for CVE-2015-7576

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Security fix for CVE-2015-7581 CVE-2015-7576 CVE-2016-0751 CVE-2016-0752 CVE-2016-0753

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

This update for rubygem-actionpack-4_2, rubygem-actionview-4_2, rubygem-activemodel-4_2, rubygem-activerecord-4_2, rubygem-activesupport-4_2 fixes the following issues :

  - CVE-2015-7576: Timing attack vulnerability in basic     authentication in Action Controller (boo#963329)

  - CVE-2016-0752: directory traversal and information leak     in Action View (boo#963332)

  - CVE-2015-7581: unbounded memory growth DoS via wildcard     controller routes (boo#963335)

  - CVE-2016-0751: rubygem-actionpack: Object Leak DoS     (boo#963331)

  - CVE-2016-0753: Input Validation Circumvention     (boo#963334)

  - CVE-2015-7577: Nested attributes rejection proc bypass     (boo#963330)

Ruby on Rails blog :

Rails 5.0.0.beta1.1, 4.2.5.1, 4.1.14.1, and 3.2.22.1 have been released! These contain important security fixes, and it is recommended that users upgrade as soon as possible.

Multiple security issues have been discovered in the Ruby on Rails web application development framework, which may result in denial of service, cross-site scripting, information disclosure or bypass of input validation.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
89640	Fedora 23 : rubygem-actionpack-4.2.3-4.fc23 (2016-f486068393)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
89583	Fedora 22 : rubygem-actionpack-4.2.0-3.fc22 / rubygem-activemodel-4.2.0-2.fc22 (2016-94e71ee673)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
88612	openSUSE Security Update : rubygem-actionpack-4_2 / rubygem-actionview-4_2 / rubygem-activemodel-4_2 / etc (openSUSE-2016-159)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
88532	FreeBSD : rails -- multiple vulnerabilities (bb0ef21d-0e1b-461b-bc3d-9cba39948888)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	high
88499	Debian DSA-3464-1 : rails - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high

Detections

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CVE-2015-7581

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Tenable Plugins

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