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Rails patches critical Active Storage flaw with RCE potential

BleepingComputer by Bill Toulas Security
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A critical vulnerability in the Active Storage framework can allow an unauthenticated attacker to read arbitrary files from a Rails application, and potentially escalate to remote code execution (RCE).

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