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FreeBSD: VID-CE6DB19B-976E-11EA-93C4-08002728F74C (CVE-2020-8163): Rails -- remote code execution vulnerability

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FreeBSD: VID-CE6DB19B-976E-11EA-93C4-08002728F74C (CVE-2020-8163): Rails -- remote code execution vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/15/2020
Created
05/20/2020
Added
05/18/2020
Modified
10/20/2020

Description

Details for this vulnerability have not been published by NIST at this point. Descriptions from software vendor advisories for this issue are provided below.

From VID-CE6DB19B-976E-11EA-93C4-08002728F74C:

Ruby on Rails blog:

Due to an unfortunate oversight, Rails 4.2.11.2 has a missing constant

error. To address this Rails 4.2.11.3 has been released.

The original announcement for CVE-2020-8163 has a follow-up message

with an updated patch if you’re unable to use the gems.

Solution(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-package-rubygem-actionview4

References

  • CVE-2020-8163

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