CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-8159
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-05-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22
Description
There is a vulnerability in actionpack_page-caching gem < v1.2.1 that allows an attacker to write arbitrary files to a web server, potentially resulting in remote code execution if the attacker can write unescaped ERB to a view.
Affected configurations
• rubyonrails actionpack page-caching (< 1.2.1)
• debian debian linux 9.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
References
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/rubyonrails-security/CFRVkEytdP8 groups.google.com
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/07/msg00019.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/rubyonrails-security/CFRVkEytdP8 groups.google.com
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/07/msg00019.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory