CVE-2020-8163

HIGH NUCLEI

Rails <5.0.1 - Code Injection

Title source: llm

Description

The is a code injection vulnerability in versions of Rails prior to 5.0.1 that wouldallow an attacker who controlled the `locals` argument of a `render` call to perform a RCE.

Exploits (5)

exploitdb WORKING POC
by Lucas Amorim · rubywebappsruby
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/48716
nomisec WORKING POC 61 stars
by lucasamorimca · poc
https://github.com/lucasamorimca/CVE-2020-8163
nomisec WORKING POC 4 stars
by h4ms1k · poc
https://github.com/h4ms1k/CVE-2020-8163
nomisec WORKING POC 1 stars
by RedBinaryRabbit · poc
https://github.com/RedBinaryRabbit/CVE-2020-8163
inthewild WORKING POC
poc
https://github.com/lucasallan/cve-2020-8163

Nuclei Templates (1)

Ruby on Rails <5.0.1 - Remote Code Execution
HIGHby tim_koopmans
Shodan: cpe:"cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails"

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.9107
EPSS Percentile 99.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-94
Status published
Products (3)
debian/debian_linux 9.0
rubygems/actionview 0 - 4.2.11.3RubyGems
rubyonrails/rails < 5.0.1
Published Jul 02, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026