[DRE-maint] Bug#960680: ruby-actionpack-page-caching: CVE-2020-8159

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: ruby-actionpack-page-caching
Version: 1.1.0-1
Severity: grave
Tags: security upstream

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for ruby-actionpack-page-caching.

CVE-2020-8159[0]:
| There is a vulnerability in actionpack_page-caching gem < v1.2.1
| that allows an attacker to write arbitrary files to a web server,
| potentially resulting in remote code execution if the attacker can
| write unescaped ERB to a view.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-8159
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-8159
[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rubyonrails-security/CFRVkEytdP8

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore