CVE-2020-8159 (GCVE-0-2020-8159)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-05-12 13:01
Modified
2024-08-04 09:48
Severity ?
CWE
Summary
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.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a https://github.com/rails/actionpack-page_caching Version: v1.2.1
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