Rails patches critical Active Storage flaw with RCE potential

By Bill Toulas

AI Summary

A critical vulnerability in Ruby on Rails' Active Storage framework allows unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files from Rails applications, with potential escalation to remote code execution. Rails has released patches addressing the flaw, which affects a broadly deployed web framework used across thousands of production applications. Security teams running Rails should prioritize upgrading immediately given the unauthenticated attack vector and RCE potential.

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