Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type Affecting rails package, versions <2:5.2.4.3+dfsg-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.03% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-RAILS-571278
  • published4 Jun 2020
  • disclosed19 Jun 2020

Introduced: 4 Jun 2020

CVE-2020-8162  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-434  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable 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:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

A client side enforcement of server side security vulnerability exists in rails < 5.2.4.2 and rails < 6.0.3.1 ActiveStorage's S3 adapter that allows the Content-Length of a direct file upload to be modified by an end user bypassing upload limits.

CVSS Base Scores

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