Information Exposure Affecting actionpack package, versions <5.2.4.3 >=6.0.0, <6.0.3.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Proof of concept
    EPSS
    0.58% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-ACTIONPACK-569600
  • published 19 May 2020
  • disclosed 19 May 2020
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade actionpack to version 5.2.4.3, 6.0.3.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure by Bypassing Strong Parameters. Specifically the return value of each, or each_value, or each_pair will return the underlying "untrusted" hash of data that was read from the parameters.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
6.5 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    Required
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    None
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NVD

7.5 high
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SUSE

7.5 high
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Red Hat

7.5 high