Remote Code Execution (RCE) Affecting actionview package, versions <4.2.11.3 >=5.0.0, <5.0.1
Threat Intelligence
Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
96.5% (100th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-ACTIONVIEW-569156
- published 17 May 2020
- disclosed 17 May 2020
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 17 May 2020
CVE-2020-8163 Open this link in a new tabHow 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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