GHSA-2p68-f74v-9wc6
Vulnerability from github
Published
2020-05-26 14:49
Modified
2023-08-08 16:28
Severity ?
Summary
ActiveSupport potentially unintended unmarshalling of user-provided objects in MemCacheStore and RedisCacheStore
Details

In ActiveSupport, there is potentially unexpected behaviour in the MemCacheStore and RedisCacheStore where, when untrusted user input is written to the cache store using the raw: true parameter, re-reading the result from the cache can evaluate the user input as a Marshalled object instead of plain text. Vulnerable code looks like:

data = cache.fetch("demo", raw: true) { untrusted_string } Versions Affected: rails < 5.2.5, rails < 6.0.4 Not affected: Applications not using MemCacheStore or RedisCacheStore. Applications that do not use the raw option when storing untrusted user input. Fixed Versions: rails >= 5.2.4.3, rails >= 6.0.3.1

Impact

Unmarshalling of untrusted user input can have impact up to and including RCE. At a minimum, this vulnerability allows an attacker to inject untrusted Ruby objects into a web application. In addition to upgrading to the latest versions of Rails, developers should ensure that whenever they are calling Rails.cache.fetch they are using consistent values of the raw parameter for both reading and writing, especially in the case of the RedisCacheStore which does not, prior to these changes, detect if data was serialized using the raw option upon deserialization.

Workarounds

It is recommended that application developers apply the suggested patch or upgrade to the latest release as soon as possible. If this is not possible, we recommend ensuring that all user-provided strings cached using the raw argument should be double-checked to ensure that they conform to the expected format.

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      "database_specific": {
        "last_known_affected_version_range": "\u003c= 5.2.4.2"
      },
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        "name": "activesupport"
      },
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  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2020-8165"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-502"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2020-05-26T14:47:03Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2020-06-19T18:15:00Z",
    "severity": "CRITICAL"
  },
  "details": "In ActiveSupport, there is potentially unexpected behaviour in the MemCacheStore and RedisCacheStore where, when\nuntrusted user input is written to the cache store using the `raw: true` parameter, re-reading the result\nfrom the cache can evaluate the user input as a Marshalled object instead of plain text. Vulnerable code looks like:\n\n```\ndata = cache.fetch(\"demo\", raw: true) { untrusted_string }\n```\nVersions Affected:  rails \u003c 5.2.5, rails \u003c 6.0.4\nNot affected:       Applications not using MemCacheStore or RedisCacheStore. Applications that do not use the `raw` option when storing untrusted user input.\nFixed Versions:     rails \u003e= 5.2.4.3, rails \u003e= 6.0.3.1\n  \nImpact\n------\nUnmarshalling of untrusted user input can have impact up to and including RCE. At a minimum,\nthis vulnerability allows an attacker to inject untrusted Ruby objects into a web application.\nIn addition to upgrading to the latest versions of Rails, developers should ensure that whenever\nthey are calling `Rails.cache.fetch` they are using consistent values of the `raw` parameter for both\nreading and writing, especially in the case of the RedisCacheStore which does not, prior to these changes,\ndetect if data was serialized using the raw option upon deserialization.\n\nWorkarounds\n-----------\nIt is recommended that application developers apply the suggested patch or upgrade to the latest release as\nsoon as possible. If this is not possible, we recommend ensuring that all user-provided strings cached using\nthe `raw` argument should be double-checked to ensure that they conform to the expected format.",
  "id": "GHSA-2p68-f74v-9wc6",
  "modified": "2023-08-08T16:28:29Z",
  "published": "2020-05-26T14:49:24Z",
  "references": [
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      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-8165"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://hackerone.com/reports/413388"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/activesupport/CVE-2020-8165.yml"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rubyonrails-security/bv6fW4S0Y1c"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://groups.google.com/g/rubyonrails-security/c/bv6fW4S0Y1c"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00022.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00013.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2020/5/18/Rails-5-2-4-3-and-6-0-3-1-have-been-released"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4766"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00031.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00034.html"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "ActiveSupport potentially unintended unmarshalling of user-provided objects in MemCacheStore and RedisCacheStore"
}


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