CVE-2020-8163

Published: 2 July 2020

The is a code injection vulnerability in versions of Rails prior to 5.0.1 that wouldallow an attacker who controlled the `locals` argument of a `render` call to perform a RCE.

Notes

Author	Note
seth-arnold	In Oneiric-Saucy, rails package is just for transition; The rails package contains actual code from vivid onward

Priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package	Release	Status
rails Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Needs triage
	eoan	Ignored (reached end-of-life)
	focal	Needs triage
	groovy	Ignored (reached end-of-life)
	hirsute	Ignored (reached end-of-life)
	impish	Ignored (reached end-of-life)
	jammy	Needs triage
	kinetic	Needs triage
	precise	Does not exist
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Needs triage
rails-4.0 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Does not exist
	eoan	Does not exist
	focal	Does not exist
	groovy	Does not exist
	hirsute	Does not exist
	impish	Does not exist
	jammy	Does not exist
	kinetic	Does not exist
	precise	Does not exist
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Does not exist
ruby-actionpack-3.2 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Does not exist
	eoan	Does not exist
	focal	Does not exist
	groovy	Does not exist
	hirsute	Does not exist
	impish	Does not exist
	jammy	Does not exist
	kinetic	Does not exist
	precise	Does not exist
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Does not exist
ruby-activemodel-3.2 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Does not exist
	eoan	Does not exist
	focal	Does not exist
	groovy	Does not exist
	hirsute	Does not exist
	impish	Does not exist
	jammy	Does not exist
	kinetic	Does not exist
	precise	Does not exist
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Does not exist
ruby-activerecord-3.2 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Does not exist
	eoan	Does not exist
	focal	Does not exist
	groovy	Does not exist
	hirsute	Does not exist
	impish	Does not exist
	jammy	Does not exist
	kinetic	Does not exist
	precise	Does not exist
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Does not exist
ruby-activesupport-3.2 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Does not exist
	eoan	Does not exist
	focal	Does not exist
	groovy	Does not exist
	hirsute	Does not exist
	impish	Does not exist
	jammy	Does not exist
	kinetic	Does not exist
	precise	Does not exist
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Does not exist
ruby-rails-3.2 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Does not exist
	eoan	Does not exist
	focal	Does not exist
	groovy	Does not exist
	hirsute	Does not exist
	impish	Does not exist
	jammy	Does not exist
	kinetic	Does not exist
	precise	Does not exist
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Does not exist

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.8
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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