CVE-2020-8185
unknown
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
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Description
A denial of service vulnerability exists in Rails <6.0.3.2 that allowed an untrusted user to run any pending migrations on a Rails app running in production.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 0 |
| sid | Fixed | 0 |
| forky | Fixed | 0 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 0 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 0 |
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| RubyGems | actionpack | !< 6.0.0||<>= 6.0.3.2 | >= 6.0.3.2 |
| RubyGems | actionpack | >=6.0.0,<6.0.3.2 | 6.0.3.2 |
References
- https://groups.google.com/g/rubyonrails-security/c/pAe9EV8gbM0
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-8185
- https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/2121b9d20b60ed503aa041ef7b926d331ed79fc2
- https://hackerone.com/reports/899069
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/actionpack/CVE-2020-8185.yml
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XJ7NUWXAEVRQCROIIBV4C6WXO6IR3KSB
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-8185
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.