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Strike ID:
E20-14pv1
CVSS:
6.5 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
False Positive:
t
Variants:
3
Year:
2020

Description

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Ruby on Rails versions 5 < 5.0.1 and 4 < 4.2.11.2, due to lack of user input validation. The vulnerability manifests itself whenever the 'locals' value for a 'render' call is set to 'params' value. Remote attackers may exploit applications containing the up-mentioned pattern by sending a crafted HTTP request to obtain arbitrary code execution.

CVE

https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2020-8163

References

https://medium.com/@qazbnm456/cve-2020-8163-partial-remote-code-execution-c6f46b...
https://github.com/sh286/CVE-2020-8163