Ruby on Rails < 6.0.3.2 DoS Vulnerability
🗓️ 06 Jul 2020 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2020 Greenbone AGType
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| Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 99 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in Rails | 18 Jul 202006:08 | – | ibm | |
| CVE-2020-8185 | 2 Jul 202019:15 | – | attackerkb | |
| The vulnerability of the Ruby on Rails software platform, related to improper authentication, allows a hacker to trigger a service failure. | 17 Jul 202500:00 | – | bdu_fstec | |
| Rails Denial of Service Vulnerability | 3 Jul 202000:00 | – | cnvd | |
| CVE-2020-8185 | 2 Jul 202018:35 | – | cve | |
| CVE-2020-8185 | 2 Jul 202018:35 | – | cvelist | |
| CVE-2020-8185 | 2 Jul 202018:35 | – | debiancve | |
| EUVD-2020-0479 | 7 Oct 202500:30 | – | euvd | |
| Rails -- permission vulnerability | 17 Jun 202000:00 | – | freebsd | |
| [SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: rubygem-activemodel-6.0.3.3-1.fc33 | 5 Oct 202000:18 | – | fedora |
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| Source | Link |
|---|---|
| hackerone | www.hackerone.com/reports/899069 |
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:rubyonrails:rails";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.113716");
script_version("2025-09-09T05:38:49+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-09-09 05:38:49 +0000 (Tue, 09 Sep 2025)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2020-07-06 10:19:34 +0000 (Mon, 06 Jul 2020)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"4.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2020-10-05 02:15:00 +0000 (Mon, 05 Oct 2020)");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_cve_id("CVE-2020-8185");
script_name("Ruby on Rails < 6.0.3.2 DoS Vulnerability");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2020 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Denial of Service");
script_dependencies("gb_rails_consolidation.nasl", "os_detection.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("rails/detected", "Host/runs_windows");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Ruby on Rails is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"An untrusted user may run any pending migration in production.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation would allow an attacker to
render legitimate users unable to use the application.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Ruby on Rails through version 6.0.3.1.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 6.0.3.2 or later.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://hackerone.com/reports/899069");
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");
if( isnull( port = get_app_port( cpe: CPE ) ) )
exit( 0 );
if( ! infos = get_app_version_and_location( cpe: CPE, port: port, exit_no_version: TRUE ) )
exit( 0 );
version = infos["version"];
location = infos["location"];
if( version_is_less( version: version, test_version: "6.0.3.2" ) ) {
report = report_fixed_ver( installed_version: version, fixed_version: "6.0.3.2", install_path: location );
security_message( port: port, data: report );
exit( 0 );
}
exit( 99 );
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