CVE-2020-8159: Path Traversal

May 12, 2020 (updated July 23, 2021)

There is a vulnerability in actionpack_page-caching that allows an attacker to write arbitrary files to a web server, potentially resulting in remote code execution if the attacker can write unescaped ERB to a view.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-8159

Code Behaviors & Features

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