Arbitrary Code Injection The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package ruby193-rubygem-actionpack (opens in a new tab)
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-RUBY193RUBYGEMACTIONPACK-9864192
- published28 Apr 2025
- disclosed29 Feb 2016
Introduced: 29 Feb 2016
CVE-2016-2098 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ruby193-rubygem-actionpack package and not the ruby193-rubygem-actionpack package as distributed by RHEL.
Action Pack in Ruby on Rails before 3.2.22.2, 4.x before 4.1.14.2, and 4.2.x before 4.2.5.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary Ruby code by leveraging an application's unrestricted use of the render method.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1310054
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2098
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00057.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00080.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00083.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00086.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00006.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00053.html
- http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2016/2/29/Rails-4-2-5-2-4-1-14-2-3-2-22-2-have-been-released/
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3509
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83725
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035122
- https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=rubyonrails-security/ly-IH-fxr_Q/WLoOhcMZIAAJ
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40086/
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40086
- https://github.com/0x00-0x00/CVE-2016-2098