Improper Input Validation Affecting rubygem-rake package, versions <0:0.9.2.2-41.el7sat


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
66.31% (99th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-RUBYGEMRAKE-5394395
  • published26 Mar 2023
  • disclosed18 May 2020

Introduced: 18 May 2020

CVE-2020-8165  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 rubygem-rake to version 0:0.9.2.2-41.el7sat or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2021:1313.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rubygem-rake package and not the rubygem-rake package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 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