Bug 1838024 (CVE-2020-8151)

Summary:	CVE-2020-8151 rubygem-activeresource: specially crafted requests to access data allows for an information disclosure
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Marian Rehak <mrehak>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	mo, strzibny, vondruch
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	rubygem-activeresource 5.1.1	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
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Last Closed:	2020-05-21 15:15:21 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1838510, 1838511
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Description Marian Rehak 2020-05-20 11:40:04 UTC

There is a possible information disclosure issue in Active Resource <v5.1.1 that could allow an attacker to create specially crafted requests to access data in an unexpected way and possibly leak information.

Upstream Advisory:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rubyonrails-security/pktoF4VmiM8

Comment 1 Marian Rehak 2020-05-21 10:11:50 UTC

Created rubygem-activeresource tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1838511]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1838510]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-05-21 15:15:21 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.