CVE-2020-8163 in Ruby on Rails and Debian Products
Published on July 2, 2020
The is a code injection vulnerability in versions of Rails prior to 5.0.1 that wouldallow an attacker who controlled the `locals` argument of a `render` call to perform a RCE.
Weakness Type
What is a Code Injection Vulnerability?
The software constructs all or part of a code segment using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the syntax or behavior of the intended code segment.
CVE-2020-8163 has been classified to as a Code Injection vulnerability or weakness.
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Exploit Probability
EPSS
90.93%
Percentile
99.62%
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