Information disclosure in Active Resource - CVE-2020-8151

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to the way Active Resource encodes data before querying the back end server. A remote attacker can send specially crafted requests and gain unauthorized access to sensitive information on the system.

Affected software

How to mitigate CVE-2020-8151

External References

• https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rubyonrails-security/pktoF4VmiM8

Related Security Bulletins

• Information disclosure in Ruby Active Resource library
• openEuler update for rubygem-activeresource
• Fedora 33 update for rubygem-activeresource