Bug 1838024 (CVE-2020-8151) - CVE-2020-8151 rubygem-activeresource: specially crafted requests to access data allows for an information disclosure
Summary: CVE-2020-8151 rubygem-activeresource: specially crafted requests to access da...
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2020-8151
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1838511 1838510
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-05-20 11:40 UTC by Marian Rehak
Modified: 2020-05-21 15:15 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: rubygem-activeresource 5.1.1
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Last Closed: 2020-05-21 15:15:21 UTC
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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.
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