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Advisory record · GHSA-mg5p-95m9-rmfp

Arbitrary file write in actionpack-page_caching gem

CVSS 9.8 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.054 · 92nd percentile

Critical, because:

  • CVSS score 9.8: 9.0 or more.

How we decide what’s critical

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 13 May 2020, 16:28 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
actionpack-page_cachingRubyGems<1.2.11.2.1
Identifiers
GHSA-mg5p-95m9-rmfp · CVE-2020-8159
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-22
Tags
Published
13 May 2020
Updated
8 Nov 2023

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
9.8 Critical 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H GitHub Advisory Database
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.054, the 92nd percentile, on 9 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the GitHub Advisory Database, published 13 May 2020. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

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