Action Pack in Ruby on Rails before 3.2.22.2, 4.x before 4.1.14.2, and 4.2.x before 4.2.5.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary Ruby code by leveraging an application's unrestricted use of the render method.
Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-604-1 ruby-actionpack-3.2 security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3509-1 rails security update
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-78rc-8c29-p45g actionpack allows remote code execution via application's unrestricted use of render method
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History

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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{'score': 0.8743}

epss

{'score': 0.84091}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T23:17:50.698Z

Reserved: 2016-01-29T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-2098

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2016-04-07T23:59:06.643

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2016-2098

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2016-02-29T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-2098 - Bugzilla

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