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CVE-2020-8151:
Ruby vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
There is a possible information disclosure issue in Active Resource versions prior to 5.1.1, identified as CVE-2020-8151. The vulnerability was discovered and disclosed in May 2020, affecting the Ruby on Rails framework component ActiveResource, which is a REST modeling framework (NVD, Debian Tracker).
Technical details
The vulnerability is classified as an Information Disclosure issue (CWE-200). ActiveResource, which was extracted to a separate gem starting in Rails 4.0 release, could allow an attacker to create specially crafted requests to access sensitive data (NVD).
Impact
The vulnerability could potentially lead to unauthorized information disclosure, allowing attackers to access sensitive data through specially crafted requests (NVD).
Mitigation and workarounds
The vulnerability has been addressed in ActiveResource version 5.1.1. Users are advised to upgrade to this version or later to mitigate the security risk. The fix has been included in various distribution updates, including Fedora 33's package update to rubygem-activeresource-5.1.1 (Fedora Update).
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