Resource exhaustion in Rubyonrails Rails
CVE-2020-8185
A denial of service vulnerability exists in Rails <6.0.3.2 that allowed an untrusted user to run any pending migrations on a Rails app running in production.
Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)
EPSS: 0.022 (80.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.
Affected products
- Rubyonrails Rails
- Fedoraproject Fedora — versions 33
- N/a Https://github.com/rails/rails — versions Fixed in 6.0.3.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- support@hackerone.com (Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
- support@hackerone.com (Patch, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
- support@hackerone.com (x_refsource_FEDORA, vendor-advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2020-8185?
- CVE-2020-8185 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Rubyonrails Rails, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2020-07-02.
- How severe is CVE-2020-8185?
- Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2020-8185 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.