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[Security] Bump railties from 5.2.2 to 5.2.2.1

Closed Administrator requested to merge dependabot/bundler/railties-5.2.2.1 into master

Created by: dependabot-preview[bot]

Bumps railties from 5.2.2 to 5.2.2.1. This update includes security fixes.

Vulnerabilities fixed

Sourced from The GitHub Security Advisory Database.

Moderate severity vulnerability that affects railties

Possible Remote Code Execution Exploit in Rails Development Mode

Impact

With some knowledge of a target application it is possible for an attacker to guess the automatically generated development mode secret token. This secret token can be used in combination with other Rails internals to escalate to a remote code execution exploit.

All users running an affected release should either upgrade or use one of the workarounds immediately.

Releases

The 6.0.0.beta3 and 5.2.2.1 releases are available at the normal locations.

Workarounds

This issue can be mitigated by specifying a secret key in development mode. In "config/environments/development.rb" add this:

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Affected versions: >= 5.2.0, <= 5.2.2

Changelog

Sourced from railties's changelog.

Rails 5.2.2.1 (March 11, 2019)

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