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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2019-5418

There is a File Content Disclosure vulnerability in Action View <5.2.2.1, <5.1.6.2, <5.0.7.2, <4.2.11.1 and v3 where specially crafted accept headers can cause contents of arbitrary files on the target system's filesystem to be exposed.

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1 Nov 2026, 04:21 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2019-5418

core-osv · Original source

Published 27 Mar 2019, 14:29 UTC

There is a File Content Disclosure vulnerability in Action View <5.2.2.1, <5.1.6.2, <5.0.7.2, <4.2.11.1 and v3 where specially crafted accept headers can cause contents of arbitrary files on the target system's filesystem to be exposed.

osv:CVE-2019-5418
Complete source record
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        "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1289",
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00042.html",
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