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high 7.5

CVE-2020-8151 json

Information disclosure issue in Active Resource

published 6y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-46j2-xjgp-jrfm , EUVD-2020-0408

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.2%
EPSS 2.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 82%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

There is a possible information disclosure issue in Active Resource <v5.1.1 that could allow an attacker to create specially crafted requests to access data in an unexpected way and possibly leak information.

Patch / fix

  • rubygems activeresource 5.1.1
  • rubyonrails active_resource 5.1.1
  • kibana OpenStack Cloud 7 4.6.3-5.1
  • ansible OpenStack Cloud 7 2.2.3.0-12.2
  • grafana OpenStack Cloud 7 4.6.5-1.14.1
  • memcached OpenStack Cloud 7 1.5.17-3.6.1
  • python-py OpenStack Cloud 7 1.8.1-11.12.1
  • zookeeper OpenStack Cloud 7 3.4.10-6.1
  • crowbar-ha OpenStack Cloud 7 4.0+git.1585316203.d6ad2c8-4.52.4
  • keepalived OpenStack Cloud 7 2.0.19-1.8.1

suse advisories SUSE-RU-2020:2072-1SUSE-SU-2020:1901-1

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red hat product security vex CVE-2020-8151 updated cvss 7.5

rubygem-activeresource: specially crafted requests to access data allows for an information disclosure

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 82% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
rubygems activeresource
>=3.0.0.rc, <5.1.1
5.1.1

Affected products

  • n/a https://github.com/rails/activeresource

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
  • CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization
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