Improper Input Validation Affecting rails package, versions <2:5.2.2.1+dfsg-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
95.98% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-RAILS-1558442
  • published14 Mar 2019
  • disclosed27 Mar 2019

Introduced: 14 Mar 2019

CVE-2019-5420  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:12 rails to version 2:5.2.2.1+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 remote code execution vulnerability in development mode Rails <5.2.2.1, <6.0.0.beta3 can allow an attacker to guess the automatically generated development mode secret token. This secret token can be used in combination with other Rails internals to escalate to a remote code execution exploit.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1