CVE-2014-0082: Rubyonrails Rails

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 6.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

actionpack/lib/action_view/template/text.rb in Action View in Ruby on Rails 3.x before 3.2.17 converts MIME type strings to symbols during use of the :text option to the render method, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by including these strings in headers.

Affected products

• Rubyonrails Rails: version 3.0.0 only; version 3.0.1 only; version 3.0.2 only; version 3.0.3 only; version 3.0.4 only; version 3.0.5 only; …
• Rubyonrails Ruby On Rails: up to and including 3.2.16; version 3.0.4 only; version 3.2.14 only; version 3.2.15 only

Published 2014-02-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.