HIGH7.5

GHSA-q2qw-rmrh-vv42

Improper Access Control in activejob

Quick fix

GHSA-q2qw-rmrh-vv42 — activejob: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

bundle update activejob

Details

A Broken Access Control vulnerability in Active Job versions >= 4.2.0 allows an attacker to craft user input which can cause Active Job to deserialize it using GlobalId and give them access to information that they should not have.

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Affected packages

RubyGems/activejob

Introduced in: 4.2.0Fixed in: 4.2.11

Fixbundle update activejob

RubyGems/activejob

Introduced in: 5.0.0Fixed in: 5.0.7.1

Fixbundle update activejob

RubyGems/activejob

Introduced in: 5.1.0Fixed in: 5.1.6.1

Fixbundle update activejob

RubyGems/activejob

Introduced in: 5.2.0Fixed in: 5.2.1.1

Fixbundle update activejob

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16476[ADVISORY]
https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/970b0d754be7c71a760d9b807eea32297fd838e3[WEB]
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0600[WEB]
https://github.com/rails/rails[PACKAGE]
https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/activejob/CVE-2018-16476.yml[WEB]
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-security/FL4dSdzr2zw/zjKVhF4qBAAJ[WEB]
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rubyonrails-security/FL4dSdzr2zw[WEB]
https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2018/11/27/Rails-4-2-5-0-5-1-5-2-have-been-released[WEB]