CVE-2020-8159

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-8159
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-8159.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2020-8159
Aliases
Downstream
Published
2020-05-12T13:15:13.250Z
Modified
2025-12-08T23:53:07.384329Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

There is a vulnerability in actionpack_page-caching gem < v1.2.1 that allows an attacker to write arbitrary files to a web server, potentially resulting in remote code execution if the attacker can write unescaped ERB to a view.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/rails/actionpack-action_caching

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/rails/actionpack-action_caching
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
6bce590e30d24db8e9eeb6692b66b19ab8999b1b

Affected versions

v1.*

v1.0.0
v1.1.0
v1.1.1
v1.2.0

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-8159.json"

Git / github.com/rails/actionpack-page_caching

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/rails/actionpack-page_caching
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
066693b3e6a0f491179fedc3b4262f32b88a8872

Affected versions

v1.*

v1.0.0
v1.0.1
v1.0.2
v1.1.0
v1.2.0

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-8159.json"