CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-66066
9.5 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Awaiting Analysis
- Published
- 2026-07-30
- Last modified
- 2026-09-10
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
- 9.5 CRITICAL — CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- Weaknesses
- CWE-1188
Description
Action Pack is a framework for handling and responding to web requests. In versions prior to 7.2.3.2, 8.0.5.1 and 8.1.3.1, Active Storage does not disable libvips operations marked unsafe for untrusted content, allowing a crafted upload to invoke such an operation. Consuming applications are affected when configured to use libvips and accept image uploads from untrusted users. An unauthenticated attacker may exploit this behavior to read arbitrary files accessible to the Rails process, including environment variables and application secrets. Exposure of credentials such as secret_key_base or external-service tokens may enable remote code execution or lateral movement. This issue has been fixed in versions 7.2.3.2, 8.0.5.1 and 8.1.3.1.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-1188 Initialization of a Resource with an Insecure Default weakness
References
- https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/1c01bb587206ee6eb0e1179c2cef96a6a47acb1e github.com
- https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/349e7a5d5b4b715af1e416db824f3c078a7d59e5 github.com
- https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/d79b7f4aa17dec8ce4960fef05733c8c0c7ef49a github.com
- https://github.com/rails/rails/releases/tag/v7.2.3.2 github.com
- https://github.com/rails/rails/releases/tag/v8.0.5.1 github.com
- https://github.com/rails/rails/releases/tag/v8.1.3.1 github.com
- https://github.com/rails/rails/security/advisories/GHSA-xr9x-r78c-5hrm github.com
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/activestorage/CVE-2026-66066.yml github.com
- https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/critical-rails-flaw-could-let.html thehackernews.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/07/29/9 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/08/01/6 www.openwall.com
- https://ethiack.com/info-hub/research/kindarails2shell-rails-rce-cve-2026-66066 ethiack.com
- https://github.com/rails/rails-forensics-CVE-2026-66066 github.com