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CVE-2018-16476 — A Broken Access Control vulnerability in Active Job versions >= 4

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

CVSS
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EPSS
0.79% (top 26.30%)
CWE
CWE-284
Published
2018-11-30T19:00:00.000Z
Last modified
2024-08-05T10:24:32.802Z
CVSS vector
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01What is this vulnerability?

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.

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
na / https://github.com/rails/rails4.2.0 up to and before 4.2.11, 4.2.0 up to and before 5.0.7.1, 4.2.0 up to and before 5.1.6.1, 4.2.0 up to and before 5.2.1.1

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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