Medium
Security advisory
A denial of service vulnerability exists in Rails <6.0.3.2 that allowed an untrusted user to run any pending migrations on a Rails app running in production.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-8185
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:26 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A denial of service vulnerability exists in Rails <6.0.3.2 that allowed an untrusted user to run any pending migrations on a Rails app running in production.
osv:CVE-2020-8185
Complete source record
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2020-07-02T19:15:12.747+00:00"
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