CVE-2020-8151 Information disclosure issue in Active Resource

What is CVE-2020-8151?

CVE-2020-8151 is a high-severity vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 12 May 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-863, CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-8151?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including activeresource. It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Rubyonrails Active Resource.

How do I fix CVE-2020-8151?

Upgrade activeresource to 5.1.1 or later.

Is CVE-2020-8151 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-8151 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-46j2-xjgp-jrfm, OESA-2021-1391, UBUNTU-CVE-2020-8151.