Deserialization of Untrusted Data Affecting rails package, versions <2:5.2.4.3+dfsg-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
66.31% (99th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-RAILS-1558439
  • published4 Jun 2020
  • disclosed19 Jun 2020

Introduced: 4 Jun 2020

CVE-2020-8165  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-502  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:12 rails to version 2:5.2.4.3+dfsg-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rails package and not the rails package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1