7.5

CVE-2016-0751: rubyonrails rails Resource Management Errors

Modified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2016-0751DEBIAN-CVE-2016-0751GHSA-ffpv-c4hm-3x6v
Published 16-02-2016Last modified 05-08-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2016-0751 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Resource Management Errors vulnerability in rubyonrails rails. EPSS estimates a 9.73% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95.5% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Prioritisesevere

Severe, CVSS 7.5 (NVD); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources; EPSS 10% (FIRST, 03-11-2026)

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
9.73%
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 10 · Related 5
DLA-604-1DSA-3464-1RHSA-2016:0296RHSA-2016:0454RHSA-2016:0455SUSE-SU-2016:0457-1

Timeline

  1. 16-02-2016
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 05-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 4 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

9.73%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

96%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 9.73% 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.

Rubyonrails2 products
  • 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 | 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 | 4.1.9 | 4.1.10 | 4.1.12 | 4.1.13 | 4.2.0:beta1 | 4.2.0:beta2 | 4.2.0:beta3 | 4.2.0:beta4 | 4.2.0:rc1 | 4.2.0:rc2 | 4.2.0:rc3 | 4.2.1 | 4.2.1:rc1 | 4.2.1:rc2 | 4.2.1:rc3 | 4.2.1:rc4 | 4.2.2 | 4.2.3 | 4.2.3:rc1 | 4.2.4 | 4.2.4:rc1 | 4.2.5 | 4.2.5:rc1 | 4.2.5:rc2 | 5.0.0:beta1
  • ruby_on_rails≤ 3.2.22 | 4.0.10:rc2 | 4.0.11 | 4.0.11.1 | 4.0.12 | 4.0.13 | 4.0.13:rc1 | 4.1.11
Debian1 product
  • rails< 2:4.2.5.1-1
RubyGems1 product
  • actionpack≥ 4.2.0, < 4.2.5.1 | < 3.2.22.1 | ≥ 4.0.0, < 4.1.14.1
Ubuntu1 product
  • rails< 2:4.2.5.1-1

4 vendors · 5 products

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