CRITICAL

GHSA-fhj9-cjjh-27vm

Active Record contains deserialization of arbitrary YAML

Quick fix

GHSA-fhj9-cjjh-27vm — activerecord: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

bundle update activerecord

Details

ActiveRecord in Ruby on Rails before 2.3.17 and 3.x before 3.1.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code via crafted serialized attributes that cause the +serialize+ helper to deserialize arbitrary YAML.

Are you affected?

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Affected packages

RubyGems/activerecord

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 2.3.17

Fixbundle update activerecord

RubyGems/activerecord

Introduced in: 3.0.0Fixed in: 3.1.0

Fixbundle update activerecord

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-0277[ADVISORY]
https://github.com/rails/rails/tree/v6.1.4.1/activerecord[PACKAGE]
https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/activerecord/CVE-2013-0277.yml[WEB]
https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/302ec7ce90f13837?dmode=source&output=gplain[WEB]
https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2013-0277[WEB]
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Jun/msg00000.html[WEB]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00048.html[WEB]
http://securitytracker.com/id?1028109[WEB]
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5784[WEB]
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2013/2/11/SEC-ANN-Rails-3-2-12-3-1-11-and-2-3-17-have-been-released[WEB]
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2620[WEB]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/11/6[WEB]