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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2024-03-06 11:04

Modified

2025-04-03 14:40

Summary

Details

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.

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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-07-02 18:35 – Updated: 2024-08-04 09:48

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

No CVSS data available.

CWE

CWE-94 - Code Injection (CWE-94)

Assigner

hackerone CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard D 59/100 over 216 records in the last 180 days details

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://hackerone.com/reports/304805	x_refsource_MISC
https://groups.google.com/g/rubyonrails-security/…	x_refsource_MISC
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020…	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/158604/Ruby-…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
n/a	https://github.com/rails/rails	Affected: Fixed in 4.2.11.2

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