Remote Code Execution (RCE) Affecting actionview package, versions <4.2.11.3>=5.0.0, <5.0.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
96.5% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUBY-ACTIONVIEW-569156
  • published17 May 2020
  • disclosed17 May 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 17 May 2020

CVE-2020-8163  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade actionview to version 4.2.11.3, 5.0.1 or higher.

Overview

actionview is a simple, battle-tested conventions and helpers for building web pages.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Remote Code Execution (RCE). An attacker might be able to control the locals argument of a render call.

Note: It doesn't affect applications that don't allow users to control the names of locals.

CVSS Scores

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