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CVE-2020-8151

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-05-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

There is a possible information disclosure issue in Active Resource <v5.1.1 that could allow an attacker to create specially crafted requests to access data in an unexpected way and possibly leak information.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 33
• rubyonrails Active Resource: before 5.1.1 — fixed in 5.1.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: rubyonrails Active Resource 5.1.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/rubyonrails-security/pktoF4VmiM8
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/P7B7A4H22DZ522HLDS3JX3NX2CXIOZSR/
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/rubyonrails-security/pktoF4VmiM8
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/P7B7A4H22DZ522HLDS3JX3NX2CXIOZSR/

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