7.5

CVE-2015-7581: rubyonrails rails Resource Management Errors

Modified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2015-7581DEBIAN-CVE-2015-7581GHSA-9h6g-gp95-x3q5
Published 16-02-2016Last modified 06-08-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2015-7581 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Resource Management Errors vulnerability in rubyonrails rails. EPSS estimates a 6.71% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93.9% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Prioritisesevere

Severe, CVSS 7.5 (NVD); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources; EPSS 7% (FIRST, 03-11-2026)

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
6.71%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 6 · Related 3
DSA-3464-1RHSA-2016:0296RHSA-2016:0454SUSE-SU-2016:0457-1SUSE-SU-2016:0858-1SUSE-SU-2016:1146-1

Timeline

  1. 16-02-2016
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 06-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 4 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

6.71%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

94%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 6.71% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Debian1 product
  • rails< 2:4.2.5.1-1
RubyGems1 product
  • actionpack≥ 4.0.0, < 4.2.5.1
Rubyonrails1 product
  • railsEOL4.0.0 | 4.0.0:beta | 4.0.0:rc1 | 4.0.0:rc2 | 4.0.1 | 4.0.1:rc1 | 4.0.1:rc2 | 4.0.1:rc3 | 4.0.1:rc4 | 4.0.2 | 4.0.3 | 4.0.4 | 4.0.5 | 4.0.6 | 4.0.6:rc1 | 4.0.6:rc2 | 4.0.6:rc3 | 4.0.7 | 4.0.8 | 4.0.9 | 4.0.10:rc1 | 4.1.0 | 4.1.0:beta1 | 4.1.1 | 4.1.2 | 4.1.2:rc1 | 4.1.2:rc2 | 4.1.2:rc3 | 4.1.3 | 4.1.4 | 4.1.5 | 4.1.6:rc1 | 4.1.7 | 4.1.8 | 4.2.0:beta1 | 4.2.1 | 4.2.2 | 4.2.3 | 4.2.4 | 4.2.5 | 5.0.0:beta1
Ubuntu1 product
  • rails< 2:4.2.6-1

4 vendors · 4 products

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