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FreeBSD: VID-85FCA718-99F6-11EA-BF1D-08002728F74C (CVE-2020-8166): Rails -- multiple vulnerabilities

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FreeBSD: VID-85FCA718-99F6-11EA-BF1D-08002728F74C (CVE-2020-8166): Rails -- multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
05/18/2020
Created
05/22/2020
Added
05/20/2020
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-85FCA718-99F6-11EA-BF1D-08002728F74C:

Ruby on Rails blog:

Hi everyone! Rails 5.2.4.3 and 6.0.3.1 have been released! These releases contain important security fixes, so please upgrade when you can.

Both releases contain the following fixes:

CVE-2020-8162: Circumvention of file size limits in ActiveStorage

CVE-2020-8164: Possible Strong Parameters Bypass in ActionPack

CVE-2020-8165: Potentially unintended unmarshalling of user-provided objects in MemCacheStore and RedisCacheStore

CVE-2020-8166: Ability to forge per-form CSRF tokens given a global CSRF token

CVE-2020-8167: CSRF Vulnerability in rails-ujs

Solution(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-package-rubygem-actionpack52
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-rubygem-actionpack60
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-rubygem-actionview52
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-rubygem-actionview60
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-rubygem-activestorage52
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-rubygem-activestorage60
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-rubygem-activesupport52
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-rubygem-activesupport60

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