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Ruby on Rails: Use of Insufficiently Random Values (CVE-2019-5420)

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Ruby on Rails: Use of Insufficiently Random Values (CVE-2019-5420)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/27/2019
Created
01/23/2020
Added
01/03/2020
Modified
11/08/2023

Description

A remote code execution vulnerability in development mode Rails <5.2.2.1, <6.0.0.beta3 can allow an attacker to guess the automatically generated development mode secret token. This secret token can be used in combination with other Rails internals to escalate to a remote code execution exploit.

Solution(s)

  • ruby-on-rails-upgrade-5_2_2_1

References

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