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Asymmetric denial of service In actionpack

Description

actionpack is vulnerable to denial of service because of a wildcard controller route 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.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

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