HIGH

GHSA-9rf5-jm6f-2fmm

Active Record subject to strong parameters protection bypass

Quick fix

GHSA-9rf5-jm6f-2fmm — activerecord: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

bundle update activerecord

Details

`activerecord/lib/active_record/relation/query_methods.rb` in Active Record in Ruby on Rails 4.0.x before 4.0.9 and 4.1.x before 4.1.5 allows remote attackers to bypass the strong parameters protection mechanism via crafted input to an application that makes `create_with` calls.

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Affected packages

RubyGems/activerecord

Introduced in: 4.0.0Fixed in: 4.0.9

Fixbundle update activerecord

RubyGems/activerecord

Introduced in: 4.1.0Fixed in: 4.1.5

Fixbundle update activerecord

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-3514[ADVISORY]
https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/activerecord/CVE-2014-3514.yml[WEB]
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/rubyonrails-security/M4chq5Sb540/CC1Fh0Y_NWwJ[WEB]
https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=rubyonrails-security/M4chq5Sb540/CC1Fh0Y_NWwJ[WEB]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/18/10[WEB]
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1102.html[WEB]