CVE-2018-16476: Deserialization of Untrusted Data

November 30, 2018 (updated October 9, 2019)

A Broken Access Control vulnerability in Active Job allows attackers to craft user input which, when deserialized through Active Job, could give them access to information that they should not have.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16476
weblog.rubyonrails.org/2018/11/27/Rails-4-2-5-0-5-1-5-2-have-been-released/

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