rubyonrails rails CVE-2019-5420 vulnerability in Ruby on Rails and Other Products
Published on March 27, 2019

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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.

Vendor Advisory NVD

Weakness Type

What is a Command Injection Vulnerability?

The software constructs all or part of a command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended command when it is sent to a downstream component.

CVE-2019-5420 has been classified to as a Command Injection vulnerability or weakness.


Products Associated with CVE-2019-5420

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Ruby on Rails Rails
 
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Affected Versions

https://github.com/rails/rails:

Exploit Probability

EPSS
93.10%
Percentile
99.79%

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) scores estimate the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days. The percentile shows you how this score compares to all other vulnerabilities.