[Security] Update rails requirement from ~> 4.2 to >= 4.2, < 7.0

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Updates the requirements on rails to permit the latest version.

Vulnerabilities fixed

Sourced from The GitHub Security Advisory Database.

Critical severity vulnerability that affects actionview

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Action View

Impact

Specially crafted accept headers can cause the Action View template location code to consume 100% CPU, causing the server unable to process requests. This impacts all Rails applications that render views.

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

Releases

The 6.0.0.beta3, 5.2.2.1, 5.1.6.2, 5.0.7.2, and 4.2.11.1 releases are available at the normal locations.

Workarounds

This vulnerability can be mitigated by wrapping render calls with respond_to blocks. For example, the following example is vulnerable:

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Affected versions: >= 4.0.0, <= 4.2.11

Sourced from The GitHub Security Advisory Database.

High severity vulnerability that affects actionview

File Content Disclosure in Action View

Impact

There is a possible file content disclosure vulnerability in Action View. Specially crafted accept headers in combination with calls to render file: can cause arbitrary files on the target server to be rendered, disclosing the file contents.

The impact is limited to calls to render which render file contents without a specified accept format. Impacted code in a controller looks something like this:

class UserController < ApplicationController 
  def index 
    render file: "#{Rails.root}/some/file" 
  end 
end 

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Affected versions: >= 4.0.0, <= 4.2.11

Sourced from The Ruby Advisory Database.

Broken Access Control vulnerability in Active Job There is a vulnerability in Active Job. This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2018-16476.

Impact

Carefully crafted user input can cause Active Job to deserialize it using GlobalId and allow an attacker to have access to information that they should not have.

Vulnerable code will look something like this:

MyJob.perform_later(user_input)

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

Patched versions: >= 4.2.11, = 5.2.1.1 Unaffected versions: < 4.2.0

Release notes

Sourced from rails's releases.

5.2.6

Active Support

• No changes.

Active Model

• No changes.

Active Record

• No changes.

Action View

• No changes.

Action Pack

• Accept base64_urlsafe CSRF tokens to make forward compatible.

  Base64 strict-encoded CSRF tokens are not inherently websafe, which makes them difficult to deal with. For example, the common practice of sending the CSRF token to a browser in a client-readable cookie does not work properly out of the box: the value has to be url-encoded and decoded to survive transport.

  In this version, we generate Base64 urlsafe-encoded CSRF tokens, which are inherently safe to transport. Validation accepts both urlsafe tokens, and strict-encoded tokens for backwards compatibility.

  How the tokes are encoded is controllr by the action_controller.urlsafe_csrf_tokens config.

  In Rails 5.2.5, the CSRF token format was accidentally changed to urlsafe-encoded.

  Atention: If you already upgraded your application to 5.2.5, set the config urlsafe_csrf_tokens to true, otherwise your form submission will start to fail during the deploy of this new version.

  Rails.application.config.action_controller.urlsafe_csrf_tokens = true

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Commits

• 4866154 Preparing for 5.2.6 release
• 4d68f67 Merge branch '5-2-sec' into 5-2-stable
• 2612683 Preparing for 5.2.4.6 release
• 9df84af Update changelog
• 3d9e9fd Prevent slow regex when parsing host authorization header
• 3eb9e74 Prevent string polymorphic route arguments
• fea508c Merge pull request #41797 from kamipo/fix_wrong_number_of_arguments_correctly
• 4fa8742 Fix "Exception: ActionView::Template::Error: wrong number of arguments (2 for...
• eaf001d Merge pull request #41806 from kamipo/backport_39076_to_6-0-stable
• 767acf6 Fix "Exception: ActionView::Template::Error: wrong number of arguments (2 for...
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