CVE-2020-8165

NameCVE-2020-8165
DescriptionA deserialization of untrusted data vulnernerability exists in rails < 5.2.4.3, rails < 6.0.3.1 that can allow an attacker to unmarshal user-provided objects in MemCacheStore and RedisCacheStore potentially resulting in an RCE.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-2251-1, DLA-2282-1, DSA-4766-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
rails (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)2:4.1.8-1+deb8u9fixed
stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch2:4.2.7.1-1+deb9u5fixed
buster (security), buster, buster (lts)2:5.2.2.1+dfsg-1+deb10u5fixed
bullseye (security), bullseye2:6.0.3.7+dfsg-2+deb11u2fixed
bookworm2:6.1.7.3+dfsg-2~deb12u1fixed
sid, trixie2:6.1.7.3+dfsg-4fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
railssourcewheezy(unfixed)end-of-life
railssourcejessie2:4.1.8-1+deb8u7DLA-2251-1
railssourcestretch2:4.2.7.1-1+deb9u3DLA-2282-1
railssourcebuster2:5.2.2.1+dfsg-1+deb10u2DSA-4766-1
railssource(unstable)2:5.2.4.3+dfsg-1

Notes

https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2020/5/18/Rails-5-2-4-3-and-6-0-3-1-have-been-released
https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/f7e077f85e61fc0b7381963eda0ceb0e457546b5 (MemCache backend) (5.2)
https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/467e3399c9007996c03ffe3212689d48dd25ae99 (Redis backend) (5.2)
Redis backend introduced in 5.2: https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/9f8ec3535247ac41a9c92e84ddc7a3b771bc318b

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