CVE-2020-8165(debian / debian_linux)

LOWCVSS 9.8 · CRITICAL

Immediate actions

  • Track advisory updates for patch or workaround availability

Recommended action window: Monitor and triage in normal cycle

NVD description

A deserialization of untrusted data vulnernerability exists in rails < 5.2.4.3, rails < 6.0.3.1 that can allow an attacker to unmarshal user-provided objects in MemCacheStore and RedisCacheStore potentially resulting in an RCE.

0.5/ 10 priority

Sources & remediation

Weakness type (CWE)
CWE-502

Priority

LOW

Exploitation

NONE

PoC

YES

Patch

AVAILABLE

Momentum

NONE

Are you affected?

If you run products in this scope, you should treat this CVE as relevant to your environment.

  • debian_linux
  • leap
  • rails

Affected systems

Products
debian_linuxleaprails

5 versions affected across 3 products

Deep dive

Full discourse1 post
  • 🔞 Theo@TheoMoff

    @aerowide_ @FurryTMZ It doesn't make headlines because 70% of the internet isn't using it... Ruby on rails literally had a CVSS 9.8 in 2020... CVE-2020-8165 Aren't you a cybersecurity student?

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CPE platform detail6 entries

6 of 6 entries

PartVendorProductVersionTarget SWTarget HW
OSdebiandebian_linux10.0--
OSdebiandebian_linux8.0--
OSdebiandebian_linux9.0--
OSopensuseleap15.1--
OSopensuseleap15.2--
Apprubyonrailsrails---

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