Improper Input Validation The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libwebsockets (opens in a new tab)
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- published26 Mar 2023
- disclosed18 May 2020
Introduced: 18 May 2020
CVE-2020-8165 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:7.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libwebsockets package and not the libwebsockets package as distributed by RHEL.
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.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-8165
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250509-0002/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00031.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00034.html
- https://groups.google.com/g/rubyonrails-security/c/bv6fW4S0Y1c
- https://hackerone.com/reports/413388
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00022.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00013.html
- https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2020/5/18/Rails-5-2-4-3-and-6-0-3-1-have-been-released/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4766
- https://github.com/masahiro331/CVE-2020-8165