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ruby-faye — security advisory
Faye (NPM, RubyGem) versions greater than 0.5.0 and before 1.0.4, 1.1.3 and 1.2.5, has the potential for authentication bypass in the extension system. The vulnerability allows any client to bypass checks put in place by server-side extensions, by appending extra segments to the message channel. It is patched in versions 1.0.4, 1.1.3 and 1.2.5.
- Products
- ruby-faye
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1.4.0-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-11020
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 12:55 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Faye (NPM, RubyGem) versions greater than 0.5.0 and before 1.0.4, 1.1.3 and 1.2.5, has the potential for authentication bypass in the extension system. The vulnerability allows any client to bypass checks put in place by server-side extensions, by appending extra segments to the message channel. It is patched in versions 1.0.4, 1.1.3 and 1.2.5.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2020-11020
ruby-faye
Fixed versions: 1.4.0-1
Complete source record
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"published_at": "2020-04-29T18:15:13.36+00:00"
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