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CVE-2018-16476

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…

High7.5EPSS 2.9%
Published
Updated
Reserved
Assigned by
hackerone

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.

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2018-16476, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
NVDNVD · Modified3.0High7.5CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
2.9% · top 13% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.

Weakness

Affected products

  • https://github.com/rails/rails

    • affected 4.2.0 up to and before 4.2.11
    • affected 4.2.0 up to and before 5.0.7.1
    • affected 4.2.0 up to and before 5.1.6.1
    • affected 4.2.0 up to and before 5.2.1.1

Affected packages

From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.

References (3)

Sources

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