High severity · published Nov 30, 2018
CVE-2018-16476
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…
7.5
CVSS
2.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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. This vulnerability has been fixed in versions 4.2.11, 5.0.7.1, 5.1.6.1, and 5.2.1.1.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.9% · higher than 87% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CL
Cloudforms · Redhat
4.6 · source: NVD
RA
Rails · Rubyonrails
4.2.0 before 4.2.11; 5.0.0 before 5.0.7.1; 5.1.0 before 5.1.6.1; 5.2.0 before 5.2.1.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16476
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-16476
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0600
Exploit
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-security/FL4dSdzr2zw/zjKVhF4qBAAJ
Vendor Advisory
https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2018/11/27/Rails-4-2-5-0-5-1-5-2-have-been-released/
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