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CRITICAL 9.8

GHSA-rxq3-gm4p-5fj4

rails vulnerable to improper authentication

Details

The example code for the digest authentication functionality (http_authentication.rb) in Ruby on Rails before 2.3.3 defines an authenticate_or_request_with_http_digest block that returns nil instead of false when the user does not exist, which allows context-dependent attackers to bypass authentication for applications that are derived from this example by sending an invalid username without a password.

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Affected packages

RubyGems / rails
Introduced in: 0 Fixed in: 2.3.3
Fix bundle update rails

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