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CVE-2013-1854: Symbol DoS vulnerability in Active Record

March 19, 2013 (updated August 8, 2019)

When a hash is provided as the find value for a query, the keys of the hash may be converted to symbols. Carefully crafted requests can coerce params[:name] to return a hash, and the keys to that hash may be converted to symbols. All users running an affected release should either upgrade or use one of the work arounds immediately.

References

  • groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=

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Affected versions

All versions before 2.3.18, all versions starting from 2.4.0 before 3.0.0, all versions starting from 3.1.0 before 3.1.12, all versions starting from 3.2.0 before 3.2.13

Fixed versions

  • 2.3.18
  • 3.1.12
  • 3.2.13

Solution

Upgrade, patches and workarounds available (see source)

Impact 5 MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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Weakness

  • CWE-20: Improper Input Validation

Source file

gem/activerecord/CVE-2013-1854.yml

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