Vulnerability in Kaminari (CVE-2020-11082)
Summary
Vulnerability in Kaminari (CVE-2020-11082). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 1.2.1 or later.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
Impact
In Kaminari before 1.2.1, there is a vulnerability that would allow an attacker to inject arbitrary code into pages with pagination links. This has been fixed in 1.2.1.
Releases
The 1.2.1 gem including the patch has already been released.
All past released versions are affected by this vulnerability.
Workarounds
Application developers who can't update the gem can workaround by overriding the PARAM_KEY_EXCEPT_LIST constant.
module Kaminari::Helpers
PARAM_KEY_EXCEPT_LIST = [:authenticity_token, :commit, :utf8, :_method, :script_name, :original_script_name].freeze
end
Credits
Thanks to Daniel Mircea for finding the issue and sending a patch via GitHub. Also thanks to Aditya Prakash for reporting the vulnerability.
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD GitHub Advisory OSV
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2020-11082 has been found in Kaminari.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kaminari to 1.2.1 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kaminari CVE-2020-11082" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2020-11082 (Kaminari)
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / unauthenticated
Patched: 1.2.1 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (unclassified) exists in Kaminari.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Kaminari.
Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to 1.2.1.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'Kaminari' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'Kaminari' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
Kaminariを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Apply patch patch
Upgrade Kaminari to 1.2.1ステージング環境で 1.2.1 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
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3Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Affected packages
References
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- package github.com
- web github.com
- web lists.debian.org
- web debian.org
- web github.com
- web github.com
- web github.com