CVE-2020-8185: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

July 2, 2020 (updated October 5, 2020)

A denial of service vulnerability exists in Rails that allowed an untrusted user to run any pending migrations on a Rails app running in production.

References

groups.google.com/g/rubyonrails-security/c/pAe9EV8gbM0
hackerone.com/reports/899069
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-8185

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