CVE-2020-8163 (GCVE-0-2020-8163)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-07-02 18:35 – Updated: 2024-08-04 09:48
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Summary
The is a code injection vulnerability in versions of Rails prior to 5.0.1 that wouldallow an attacker who controlled the `locals` argument of a `render` call to perform a RCE.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-94 - Code Injection (CWE-94)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a https://github.com/rails/rails Affected: Fixed in 4.2.11.2
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