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Ruby on Rails: Deserialization of Untrusted Data (CVE-2018-16476)

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Ruby on Rails: Deserialization of Untrusted Data (CVE-2018-16476)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
11/30/2018
Created
01/23/2020
Added
01/03/2020
Modified
01/03/2020

Description

A Broken Access Control vulnerability in Active Job versions >= 4.2.0 allows an attacker to craft user input which can cause Active Job to deserialize it using GlobalId and give them access to information that they should not have. This vulnerability has been fixed in versions 4.2.11, 5.0.7.1, 5.1.6.1, and 5.2.1.1.

Solution(s)

  • ruby-on-rails-upgrade-4_2_11
  • ruby-on-rails-upgrade-5_0_7_1
  • ruby-on-rails-upgrade-5_1_6_1
  • ruby-on-rails-upgrade-5_2_1_1

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