CVE-2020-8159
CRITICAL9.8EPSS 5.4%Arbitrary file write in actionpack-page_caching gem
Published: 5/13/2020Modified: 11/8/2023
Also known as:GHSA-mg5p-95m9-rmfp
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 packages (3)
- Debian/ruby-actionpack-page-cachingfrom 0, < 1.2.2-1
- Debian/ruby-actionpack-page-cachingfrom 0, < 1.0.2-4+deb9u1
- RubyGems/actionpack-page_cachingfrom 0, < 1.2.1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
References (5)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-8159
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-8159
- WEBhttps://github.com/rails/actionpack-page_caching/commit/127da70a559bed4fc573fdb4a6d498a7d5815ce2
- WEBhttps://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rubyonrails-security/CFRVkEytdP8
- WEBhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/07/msg00019.html