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Fencer Intel
high 7.5

CVE-2026-126081 json

Action Pack: Possible Strong Parameters bypass in Parameters#each_key

published 8d ago modified yesterday also EUVD-2026-122932 , GHSA-wm3x-v3qw-4jh3

Unreviewed: the maintainers' own advisory

Published by the maintainers on their GitHub repository rails/rails. GitHub has not reviewed it into the GitHub Advisory Database, so the affected packages and versions are the maintainers' word. Read the full advisory on GitHub.

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.6%
EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 50%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Action Pack is a framework for handling and responding to web requests. Prior to 8.1.4.1 and 8.0.5.2, ActionController::Parameters#each_key delegates to the internal ActiveSupport::HashWithIndifferentAccess that holds the request parameters, so when called with a block it returns that hash instead of the Parameters instance. The hash does not respond to permitted?, so Active Model mass assignment (new, assign_attributes, update) accepts it without raising ActiveModel::ForbiddenAttributesError. An application that passes the return value of each_key to mass assignment could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to set attributes that the application does not permit, such as an authorization flag. This is an incomplete fix of CVE-2020-8164, which made each, each_pair and each_value return the Parameters instance but left each_key delegated. An application is affected if it passes the return value of ActionController::Parameters#each_key, called with a block, to mass assignment. Rails itself makes no such call. This issue is fixed in versions 8.1.4.1 and 8.0.5.2.

Patch / fix

  • rubygems actionpack 8.0.5.2, 8.1.4.1

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Exploit prediction

0.63% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 50% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-11).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
rubygems actionpack
>=8.1, <8.1.4.1
<8.0.5.2
8.1.4.1
8.0.5.2

Affected products

  • rails rails

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-915 Improperly Controlled Modification of Dynamically-Determined Object Attributes
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References

Sources

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The maintainers of rails/rails published their own advisory on GitHub. Reviewed sources take precedence over it.