CVE-2018-16476

HIGH

Rails < 4.2.11 - Improper Access Control

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Exploit, Mailing List, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-security/FL4dSdzr2zw/zjKVhF4qBAAJ
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0600

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0079
EPSS Percentile 74.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-284 CWE-502
Status published
Products (3)
redhat/cloudforms 4.6
rubygems/activejob 4.2.0 - 4.2.11RubyGems
rubyonrails/rails 4.2.0 - 4.2.11
Published Nov 30, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026