CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-8163
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-07-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-94
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• rubyonrails rails (< 5.0.1)
• debian debian linux 9.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code weakness
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/158604/Ruby-On-Rails-5.0.1-Remote-Code-Execution.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://groups.google.com/g/rubyonrails-security/c/hWuKcHyoKh0 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://hackerone.com/reports/304805 Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00013.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/158604/Ruby-On-Rails-5.0.1-Remote-Code-Execution.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://groups.google.com/g/rubyonrails-security/c/hWuKcHyoKh0 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://hackerone.com/reports/304805 Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00013.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory