CVE-2019-5420
Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command
Description
A remote code execution vulnerability in development mode Rails <5.2.2.1, <6.0.0.beta3 can allow an attacker to guess the automatically generated development mode secret token. This secret token can be used in combination with other Rails internals to escalate to a remote code execution exploit.
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Key data
EPSS
- Score
- 0.89330 (89.3% probability)
- Percentile
- 99.8%
- Scores of
- Nov 10, 2026
- Model
- v2026.06.15
Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-77Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command
Affected products
Rails https://github.com/rails/rails
- affected: 5.2.2.1
- affected: 6.0.0.beta3
References
- weblog.rubyonrails.org/2019/3/13/Rails-4-2-5-1-5-1-6-2-have…
- groups.google.com/forum
- packetstormsecurity.com/files/152704/Ruby-On-Rails-DoubleTa…
- 46785 (exploit-db.com)exploit
- FEDORA-2019-1cfe24db5c (lists.fedoraproject.org)vendor-advisory
Timeline
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- Record published
- Record last updated
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