Bug 1835655 (CVE-2020-8159) - CVE-2020-8159 rubygem-actionpack-page_caching: allows an attacker to write arbitrary files to a web server, which could result in remote code execution
Summary: CVE-2020-8159 rubygem-actionpack-page_caching: allows an attacker to write ar...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2020-8159
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1835656
Blocks: 1835657
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-05-14 09:44 UTC by Michael Kaplan
Modified: 2020-05-14 18:48 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: rubygem-actionpack-page_caching 1.2.1
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Last Closed: 2020-05-14 14:33:07 UTC
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Description Michael Kaplan 2020-05-14 09:44:45 UTC
A vulnerability was found in the actionpack_page-caching gem 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.

Upstream Advisory:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rubyonrails-security/CFRVkEytdP8

Comment 1 Michael Kaplan 2020-05-14 09:45:12 UTC
Created rubygem-actionpack tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1835656]


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