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

0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    User Interaction Required
    Confidentiality High

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity Proof of concept
    EPSS 0.59% (79th percentile)
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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

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

CVE-2020-8164 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-200 Open this link in a new tab

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.