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Ruby on Rails: Deserialization of Untrusted Data (CVE-2020-8165)

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Ruby on Rails: Deserialization of Untrusted Data (CVE-2020-8165)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
06/19/2020
Created
06/27/2020
Added
06/26/2020
Modified
11/26/2024

Description

A deserialization of untrusted data vulnernerability exists in rails < 5.2.4.3, rails < 6.0.3.1 that can allow an attacker to unmarshal user-provided objects in MemCacheStore and RedisCacheStore potentially resulting in an RCE.

Solution(s)

  • ruby-on-rails-upgrade-5_2_4_3
  • ruby-on-rails-upgrade-6_0_3_1

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