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Vulnerabilities affecting this package (17)
Vulnerability Summary Fixed by
VCID-42t7-kbeq-eqcm
Aliases:
CVE-2020-8162
GHSA-m42x-37p3-fv5w
Circumvention of file size limits in ActiveStorage There is a vulnerability in ActiveStorage's S3 adapter that allows the Content-Length of a direct file upload to be modified by an end user. Versions Affected: rails < 5.2.4.2, rails < 6.0.3.1 Not affected: Applications that do not use the direct upload functionality of the ActiveStorage S3 adapter. Fixed Versions: rails >= 5.2.4.3, rails >= 6.0.3.1 Impact ------ Utilizing this vulnerability, an attacker can control the Content-Length of an S3 direct upload URL without receiving a new signature from the server. This could be used to bypass controls in place on the server to limit upload size. Workarounds ----------- This is a low-severity security issue. As such, no workaround is necessarily until such time as the application can be upgraded.
5.2.4.2
Affected by 11 other vulnerabilities.
6.0.3.1
Affected by 12 other vulnerabilities.
VCID-5t76-mwx9-8kc8
Aliases:
CVE-2020-8166
GHSA-jp5v-5gx4-jmj9
Ability to forge per-form CSRF tokens in Rails It is possible to, given a global CSRF token such as the one present in the authenticity_token meta tag, forge a per-form CSRF token for any action for that session. Impact ------ Given the ability to extract the global CSRF token, an attacker would be able to construct a per-form CSRF token for that session. Workarounds ----------- This is a low-severity security issue. As such, no workaround is necessarily until such time as the application can be upgraded.
5.2.4.3
Affected by 7 other vulnerabilities.
6.0.3.1
Affected by 12 other vulnerabilities.
VCID-6z21-pd9d-pfgk
Aliases:
CVE-2020-8164
GHSA-8727-m6gj-mc37
Possible Strong Parameters Bypass in ActionPack There is a strong parameters bypass vector in ActionPack. Versions Affected: rails <= 6.0.3 Not affected: rails < 5.0.0 Fixed Versions: rails >= 5.2.4.3, rails >= 6.0.3.1 Impact ------ In some cases user supplied information can be inadvertently leaked from Strong Parameters. Specifically the return value of `each`, or `each_value`, or `each_pair` will return the underlying "untrusted" hash of data that was read from the parameters. Applications that use this return value may be inadvertently use untrusted user input. Impacted code will look something like this: ``` def update # Attacker has included the parameter: `{ is_admin: true }` User.update(clean_up_params) end def clean_up_params params.each { |k, v| SomeModel.check(v) if k == :name } end ``` Note the mistaken use of `each` in the `clean_up_params` method in the above example. Workarounds ----------- Do not use the return values of `each`, `each_value`, or `each_pair` in your application.
5.2.4.3
Affected by 7 other vulnerabilities.
6.0.3.1
Affected by 12 other vulnerabilities.
VCID-7g2f-y978-hqgr
Aliases:
CVE-2009-4214
GHSA-9p3v-wf2w-v29c
Moderate severity vulnerability that affects rails Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the strip_tags function in Ruby on Rails before 2.2.s, and 2.3.x before 2.3.5, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving non-printing ASCII characters, related to HTML::Tokenizer and actionpack/lib/action_controller/vendor/html-scanner/html/node.rb. There are no reported fixed by versions.
VCID-832g-x9kb-3bbx
Aliases:
CVE-2016-2097
GHSA-vx9j-46rh-fqr8
actionview contains Path Traversal vulnerability There is a possible directory traversal and information leak vulnerability in Action View. This was meant to be fixed on CVE-2016-0752. However the 3.2 patch was not covering all possible scenarios. This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2016-2097. Versions Affected: 3.2.x, 4.0.x, 4.1.x Not affected: 4.2+ Fixed Versions: 3.2.22.2, 4.1.14.2 Impact ------ Applications that pass unverified user input to the `render` method in a controller may be vulnerable to an information leak vulnerability. Impacted code will look something like this: ```ruby def index render params[:id] end ``` Carefully crafted requests can cause the above code to render files from unexpected places like outside the application's view directory, and can possibly escalate this to a remote code execution attack. All users running an affected release should either upgrade or use one of the workarounds immediately. Releases -------- The FIXED releases are available at the normal locations. Workarounds ----------- A workaround to this issue is to not pass arbitrary user input to the `render` method. Instead, verify that data before passing it to the `render` method. For example, change this: ```ruby def index render params[:id] end ``` To this: ```ruby def index render verify_template(params[:id]) end private def verify_template(name) # add verification logic particular to your application here end ``` Patches ------- To aid users who aren't able to upgrade immediately we have provided patches for it. It is in git-am format and consist of a single changeset. * 3-2-render_data_leak_2.patch - Patch for 3.2 series * 4-1-render_data_leak_2.patch - Patch for 4.1 series Credits ------- Thanks to both Jyoti Singh and Tobias Kraze from makandra for reporting this and working with us in the patch!
3.2.22.2
Affected by 15 other vulnerabilities.
4.1.14.2
Affected by 16 other vulnerabilities.
VCID-fr3w-ejk8-47gw
Aliases:
CVE-2011-1497
GHSA-q58j-fmvf-9rq6
Cross site scripting in actionpack Rubygem A cross-site scripting vulnerability flaw was found in the `auto_link` function in Rails before version 3.0.6.
3.0.6
Affected by 21 other vulnerabilities.
VCID-hh65-ycrj-d7gz
Aliases:
CVE-2014-0130
GHSA-6x85-j5j2-27jx
actionpack Path Traversal vulnerability Directory traversal vulnerability in `actionpack/lib/abstract_controller/base.rb` in the implicit-render implementation in Ruby on Rails before 3.2.18, 4.0.x before 4.0.5, and 4.1.x before 4.1.1, when certain route globbing configurations are enabled, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a crafted request.
3.2.18
Affected by 16 other vulnerabilities.
4.0.5
Affected by 19 other vulnerabilities.
4.1.1
Affected by 19 other vulnerabilities.
VCID-hmy5-ekrx-1ucn
Aliases:
CVE-2019-5418
GHSA-86g5-2wh3-gc9j
Path Traversal in Action View # File Content Disclosure in Action View Impact ------ There is a possible file content disclosure vulnerability in Action View. Specially crafted accept headers in combination with calls to `render file:` can cause arbitrary files on the target server to be rendered, disclosing the file contents. The impact is limited to calls to `render` which render file contents without a specified accept format. Impacted code in a controller looks something like this: ``` ruby class UserController < ApplicationController def index render file: "#{Rails.root}/some/file" end end ``` Rendering templates as opposed to files is not impacted by this vulnerability. All users running an affected release should either upgrade or use one of the workarounds immediately. Releases -------- The 6.0.0.beta3, 5.2.2.1, 5.1.6.2, 5.0.7.2, and 4.2.11.1 releases are available at the normal locations. Workarounds ----------- This vulnerability can be mitigated by specifying a format for file rendering, like this: ``` ruby class UserController < ApplicationController def index render file: "#{Rails.root}/some/file", formats: [:html] end end ``` In summary, impacted calls to `render` look like this: ``` render file: "#{Rails.root}/some/file" ``` The vulnerability can be mitigated by changing to this: ``` render file: "#{Rails.root}/some/file", formats: [:html] ``` Other calls to `render` are not impacted. Alternatively, the following monkey patch can be applied in an initializer: ``` ruby $ cat config/initializers/formats_filter.rb # frozen_string_literal: true ActionDispatch::Request.prepend(Module.new do def formats super().select do |format| format.symbol || format.ref == "*/*" end end end) ``` Credits ------- Thanks to John Hawthorn <john@hawthorn.email> of GitHub
4.2.11.1
Affected by 10 other vulnerabilities.
5.0.7.2
Affected by 10 other vulnerabilities.
5.1.6.2
Affected by 10 other vulnerabilities.
5.2.2.1
Affected by 12 other vulnerabilities.
VCID-k6aw-heeb-wke2
Aliases:
CVE-2023-22795
GHSA-8xww-x3g3-6jcv
GMS-2023-56
ReDoS based DoS vulnerability in Action Dispatch There is a possible regular expression based DoS vulnerability in Action Dispatch related to the If-None-Match header. This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2023-22795. Versions Affected: All Not affected: None Fixed Versions: 5.2.8.15 (Rails LTS), 6.1.7.1, 7.0.4.1 Impact A specially crafted HTTP If-None-Match header can cause the regular expression engine to enter a state of catastrophic backtracking, when on a version of Ruby below 3.2.0. This can cause the process to use large amounts of CPU and memory, leading to a possible DoS vulnerability All users running an affected release should either upgrade or use one of the workarounds immediately. Releases The FIXED releases are available at the normal locations. Workarounds We recommend that all users upgrade to one of the FIXED versions. In the meantime, users can mitigate this vulnerability by using a load balancer or other device to filter out malicious If-None-Match headers before they reach the application. Users on Ruby 3.2.0 or greater are not affected by this vulnerability. Patches To aid users who aren’t able to upgrade immediately we have provided patches for the two supported release series. They are in git-am format and consist of a single changeset. 6-1-Avoid-regex-backtracking-on-If-None-Match-header.patch - Patch for 6.1 series 7-0-Avoid-regex-backtracking-on-If-None-Match-header.patch - Patch for 7.0 series Please note that only the 7.0.Z and 6.1.Z series are supported at present, and 6.0.Z for severe vulnerabilities. Users of earlier unsupported releases are advised to upgrade as soon as possible as we cannot guarantee the continued availability of security fixes for unsupported releases.
6.1.7.1
Affected by 1 other vulnerability.
7.0.4.1
Affected by 2 other vulnerabilities.
VCID-q1rj-sqa4-q3b4
Aliases:
CVE-2006-4112
GHSA-9wrq-xvmp-xjc8
Rails Denial of Service vulnerability Unspecified vulnerability in the "dependency resolution mechanism" in Ruby on Rails 1.1.0 through 1.1.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary Ruby code via a URL that is not properly handled in the routing code, which leads to a denial of service (application hang) or "data loss," a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-4111. There are no reported fixed by versions.
VCID-q4zs-hq6a-ayf6
Aliases:
CVE-2019-5419
GHSA-m63j-wh5w-c252
# Denial of Service Vulnerability in Action View Impact ------ Specially crafted accept headers can cause the Action View template location code to consume 100% CPU, causing the server unable to process requests. This impacts all Rails applications that render views. All users running an affected release should either upgrade or use one of the workarounds immediately. Releases -------- The 6.0.0.beta3, 5.2.2.1, 5.1.6.2, 5.0.7.2, and 4.2.11.1 releases are available at the normal locations. Workarounds ----------- This vulnerability can be mitigated by wrapping `render` calls with `respond_to` blocks. For example, the following example is vulnerable: ``` ruby class UserController < ApplicationController def index render "index" end end ``` But the following code is not vulnerable: ```ruby class UserController < ApplicationController def index respond_to |format| format.html { render "index" } end end end ``` Implicit rendering is impacted, so this code is vulnerable: ```ruby class UserController < ApplicationController def index end end ``` But can be changed this this: ```ruby class UserController < ApplicationController def index respond_to |format| format.html { render "index" } end end end ``` Alternatively to specifying the format, the following monkey patch can be applied in an initializer: ``` $ cat config/initializers/formats_filter.rb # frozen_string_literal: true ActionDispatch::Request.prepend(Module.new do def formats super().select do |format| format.symbol || format.ref == "*/*" end end end) ``` Please note that only the 5.2.x, 5.1.x, 5.0.x, and 4.2.x series are supported at present. Users of earlier unsupported releases are advised to upgrade as soon as possible as we cannot guarantee the continued availability of security fixes for unsupported releases. Also note that the patches for this vulnerability are the same as CVE-2019-5418. Credits ------- Thanks to John Hawthorn <john@hawthorn.email> of GitHub
4.2.11.1
Affected by 10 other vulnerabilities.
5.0.7.2
Affected by 10 other vulnerabilities.
5.1.6.2
Affected by 10 other vulnerabilities.
5.2.2.1
Affected by 12 other vulnerabilities.
VCID-tjcm-cvtx-jbgt
Aliases:
CVE-2020-8165
GHSA-2p68-f74v-9wc6
ActiveSupport potentially unintended unmarshalling of user-provided objects in MemCacheStore and RedisCacheStore In ActiveSupport, there is potentially unexpected behaviour in the MemCacheStore and RedisCacheStore where, when untrusted user input is written to the cache store using the `raw: true` parameter, re-reading the result from the cache can evaluate the user input as a Marshalled object instead of plain text. Vulnerable code looks like: ``` data = cache.fetch("demo", raw: true) { untrusted_string } ``` Versions Affected: rails < 5.2.5, rails < 6.0.4 Not affected: Applications not using MemCacheStore or RedisCacheStore. Applications that do not use the `raw` option when storing untrusted user input. Fixed Versions: rails >= 5.2.4.3, rails >= 6.0.3.1 Impact ------ Unmarshalling of untrusted user input can have impact up to and including RCE. At a minimum, this vulnerability allows an attacker to inject untrusted Ruby objects into a web application. In addition to upgrading to the latest versions of Rails, developers should ensure that whenever they are calling `Rails.cache.fetch` they are using consistent values of the `raw` parameter for both reading and writing, especially in the case of the RedisCacheStore which does not, prior to these changes, detect if data was serialized using the raw option upon deserialization. Workarounds ----------- It is recommended that application developers apply the suggested patch or upgrade to the latest release as soon as possible. If this is not possible, we recommend ensuring that all user-provided strings cached using the `raw` argument should be double-checked to ensure that they conform to the expected format.
5.2.4.3
Affected by 7 other vulnerabilities.
6.0.3.1
Affected by 12 other vulnerabilities.
VCID-usyz-95tu-hyca
Aliases:
CVE-2020-8163
GHSA-cr3x-7m39-c6jq
Remote code execution via user-provided local names in ActionView The is a code injection vulnerability in versions of Rails prior to 5.0.1 that would allow an attacker who controlled the `locals` argument of a `render` call to perform a RCE.
5.0.1
Affected by 17 other vulnerabilities.
VCID-vs1a-m7ya-rue8
Aliases:
CVE-2014-0081
GHSA-m46p-ggm5-5j83
OSV-103439
Rails vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting There is an XSS vulnerability in the `number_to_currency`, `number_to_percentage` and `number_to_human` helpers in Ruby on Rails. This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2014-0081. Versions Affected: All. Fixed Versions: 4.1.0.beta2, 4.0.3, 3.2.17. Impact ------ These helpers allows users to nicely format a numeric value. Some of the parameters to the helper (format, negative_format and units) are not escaped correctly. Applications which pass user controlled data as one of these parameters are vulnerable to an XSS attack. All users passing user controlled data to these parameters of the number helpers should either upgrade or use one of the workarounds immediately. Releases -------- The 4.1.0.rc1, 4.0.3 and 3.2.17 releases are available at the normal locations. Workarounds ----------- The workaround for this issue is to escape the value passed to the parameter. For example, replace code like this: ```ruby <%= number_to_currency(1.02, format: params[:format]) %> ``` With code like this ```ruby <%= number_to_currency(1.02, format: h(params[:format])) %> ``` Patches ------- To aid users who aren't able to upgrade immediately we have provided patches for the two supported release series. They are in git-am format and consist of a single changeset. * 4-1-beta-number_helpers_xss.patch - Patch for 4.1-beta series * 4-0-number_helpers_xss.patch - Patch for 4.0 series * 3-2-number_helpers_xss.patch - Patch for 3.2 series Please note that only the 4.0.x and 3.2.x series are supported at present. Users of earlier unsupported releases are advised to upgrade as soon as possible as we cannot guarantee the continued availability of security fixes for unsupported releases. Credits ------- Thanks to Kevin Reintjes for reporting the issue to us. -- Aaron Patterson http://tenderlovemaking.com/
3.2.17
Affected by 17 other vulnerabilities.
4.0.3
Affected by 20 other vulnerabilities.
4.1.0.beta2
Affected by 19 other vulnerabilities.
4.1.0
Affected by 20 other vulnerabilities.
VCID-w8ez-zf1z-qubq
Aliases:
CVE-2006-4111
GHSA-rvpq-5xqx-pfpp
Ruby on Rails vulnerable to code injection Ruby on Rails before 1.1.5 allows remote attackers to execute Ruby code with "severe" or "serious" impact via a File Upload request with an HTTP header that modifies the LOAD_PATH variable, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-4112. There are no reported fixed by versions.
VCID-wm9p-z4n1-t7cs
Aliases:
CVE-2020-8167
GHSA-xq5j-gw7f-jgj8
CSRF Vulnerability in rails-ujs There is a vulnerability in rails-ujs that allows attackers to send CSRF tokens to wrong domains. Versions Affected: rails <= 6.0.3 Not affected: Applications which don't use rails-ujs. Fixed Versions: rails >= 5.2.4.3, rails >= 6.0.3.1 Impact ------ This is a regression of CVE-2015-1840. In the scenario where an attacker might be able to control the href attribute of an anchor tag or the action attribute of a form tag that will trigger a POST action, the attacker can set the href or action to a cross-origin URL, and the CSRF token will be sent. Workarounds ----------- To work around this problem, change code that allows users to control the href attribute of an anchor tag or the action attribute of a form tag to filter the user parameters. For example, code like this: link_to params to code like this: link_to filtered_params def filtered_params # Filter just the parameters that you trust end
5.2.4.3
Affected by 7 other vulnerabilities.
6.0.3.1
Affected by 12 other vulnerabilities.
VCID-z16b-zfgu-13a9
Aliases:
CVE-2021-22904
GHSA-7wjx-3g7j-8584
rails: Possible DoS Vulnerability in Action Controller Token Authentication
5.2.4.6
Affected by 4 other vulnerabilities.
5.2.6
Affected by 4 other vulnerabilities.
6.0.3.7
Affected by 5 other vulnerabilities.
6.1.3.2
Affected by 7 other vulnerabilities.
Vulnerabilities fixed by this package (0)
Vulnerability Summary Aliases
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Date Actor Action Vulnerability Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-05-30T05:58:03.431451+00:00 GitLab Importer Affected by VCID-k6aw-heeb-wke2 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/gem/rails/CVE-2023-22795.yml 38.6.0
2026-05-30T05:11:13.402002+00:00 GitLab Importer Affected by VCID-fr3w-ejk8-47gw https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/gem/rails/CVE-2011-1497.yml 38.6.0
2026-05-30T04:44:52.654430+00:00 GitLab Importer Affected by VCID-z16b-zfgu-13a9 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/gem/rails/CVE-2021-22904.yml 38.6.0
2026-05-30T04:20:24.692308+00:00 GitLab Importer Affected by VCID-usyz-95tu-hyca https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/gem/rails/CVE-2020-8163.yml 38.6.0
2026-05-30T04:20:18.586105+00:00 GitLab Importer Affected by VCID-5t76-mwx9-8kc8 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/gem/rails/CVE-2020-8166.yml 38.6.0
2026-05-30T04:19:57.714123+00:00 GitLab Importer Affected by VCID-6z21-pd9d-pfgk https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/gem/rails/CVE-2020-8164.yml 38.6.0
2026-05-30T04:19:55.012969+00:00 GitLab Importer Affected by VCID-42t7-kbeq-eqcm https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/gem/rails/CVE-2020-8162.yml 38.6.0
2026-05-30T04:19:51.407196+00:00 GitLab Importer Affected by VCID-wm9p-z4n1-t7cs https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/gem/rails/CVE-2020-8167.yml 38.6.0
2026-05-30T04:19:45.389318+00:00 GitLab Importer Affected by VCID-tjcm-cvtx-jbgt https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/gem/rails/CVE-2020-8165.yml 38.6.0
2026-05-30T04:02:57.344685+00:00 GitLab Importer Affected by VCID-q4zs-hq6a-ayf6 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/gem/rails/CVE-2019-5419.yml 38.6.0
2026-05-30T04:02:55.421284+00:00 GitLab Importer Affected by VCID-hmy5-ekrx-1ucn https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/gem/rails/CVE-2019-5418.yml 38.6.0
2026-05-30T03:38:45.465027+00:00 GitLab Importer Affected by VCID-832g-x9kb-3bbx https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/gem/rails/CVE-2016-2097.yml 38.6.0
2026-05-30T03:36:00.238754+00:00 GitLab Importer Affected by VCID-hh65-ycrj-d7gz https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/gem/rails/CVE-2014-0130.yml 38.6.0
2026-05-30T03:35:40.743788+00:00 GitLab Importer Affected by VCID-vs1a-m7ya-rue8 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/gem/rails/CVE-2014-0081.yml 38.6.0
2026-05-29T23:57:47.789219+00:00 Ruby Importer Affected by VCID-7g2f-y978-hqgr https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rails/CVE-2009-4214.yml 38.6.0
2026-05-29T23:57:30.635497+00:00 Ruby Importer Affected by VCID-q1rj-sqa4-q3b4 https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rails/CVE-2006-4112.yml 38.6.0
2026-05-29T23:57:17.003475+00:00 Ruby Importer Affected by VCID-vs1a-m7ya-rue8 https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rails/CVE-2014-0081.yml 38.6.0
2026-05-29T23:57:00.194843+00:00 Ruby Importer Affected by VCID-w8ez-zf1z-qubq https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rails/CVE-2006-4111.yml 38.6.0