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)
Published · last modified .
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.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.022 (81.7th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 82nd percentile — 81.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.022 · newest: 0.022 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Rubyonrails Rails
- Fedoraproject Fedora — versions 33
- Https://github.com/rails/rails — versions Fixed in 6.0.3.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- hackerone.com/reports/899069 (Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory)
- groups.google.com/g/rubyonrails-security/c/pAe9EV8gbM0 (Patch, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/… (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.