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Ruby on Rails Multiple Vulnerabilities

Last Update Date: 14 Feb 2013 15:13 Release Date: 14 Feb 2013 4318 Views

RISK: Medium Risk

TYPE: Servers - Internet App Servers

TYPE: Internet App Servers

Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in Ruby on Rails, a Ruby framework for web application development.

  1. The blacklist provided by the attr_protected method could be bypassed with crafted requests, having an application-specific impact.
  2. In some applications, the +serialize+ helper in ActiveRecord could be tricked into deserializing arbitrary YAML data, possibly leading to remote code execution.

Impact

  • Remote Code Execution

System / Technologies affected

  • Version prior to 2.3.5-1.2+squeeze7

Solutions

Before installation of the software, please visit the software manufacturer web-site for more details.

  • Updated to version 2.3.5-1.2+squeeze7

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