CVE-2019-5419: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

March 27, 2019 (updated October 16, 2020)

There is a possible denial of service vulnerability in Action View (Rails) where specially crafted accept headers can cause action view to consume % cpu and make the server unresponsive.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-5419

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