Debian LTS: Security Advisory for rails (DLA-2282-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the 'rails' package(s) announced via the DLA-2282-1 advisory.

Multiple vulnerabilities were found in Ruby on Rails, a MVC ruby-based framework geared for web application development, which could lead to remote code execution and untrusted user input usage, depending on the application. CVE-2020-8163 A code injection vulnerability in Rails would allow an attacker who controlled the `locals` argument of a `render` call to perform a RCE. CVE-2020-8164 A deserialization of untrusted data vulnerability exists in rails which can allow an attacker to supply information can be inadvertently leaked from Strong Parameters. CVE-2020-8165 A deserialization of untrusted data vulnernerability exists in rails that can allow an attacker to unmarshal user-provided objects in MemCacheStore and RedisCacheStore potentially resulting in an RCE.

'rails' package(s) on Debian Linux.

Checks if a vulnerable package version is present on the target host.

For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 2:4.2.7.1-1+deb9u3. We recommend that you upgrade your rails packages.