CVE-2018-16476

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    CVE-2018-16476

    Published: 30 Nov 2018Last Modified: 9 Sept 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0600, https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2018/11/27/Rails-4-2-5-0-5-1-5-2-have-been-released/, https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-security/FL4dSdzr2zw/zjKVhF4qBAAJ

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 7847a19f476fb9bee287681586d872ea43785e53
    Fixed -474b7392c69852e8932260ea370cd63cf1e4fcaa

    Affected versions

    v5.1.6
    v5.1.4.rc1
    v5.1.3.rc1
    v5.1.2.rc1
    v5.1.1
    v5.1.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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