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Ruby on Rails: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion') (CVE-2020-8185)

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Ruby on Rails: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion') (CVE-2020-8185)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
07/02/2020
Created
07/11/2020
Added
07/10/2020
Modified
03/07/2024

Description

A denial of service vulnerability exists in Rails <6.0.3.2 that allowed an untrusted user to run any pending migrations on a Rails app running in production.

Solution(s)

  • ruby-on-rails-upgrade-6_0_3_2

References

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