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Rails 4 -- Unsafe Query Generation Risk in Active Record

Affected packages
4.2.0	<	rubygem-activerecord4	<	4.2.7.1

Details

VuXML ID	7e61cf44-6549-11e6-8286-00248c0c745d
Discovery	2016-08-11
Entry	2016-08-18

Ruby Security team reports:

There is a vulnerability when Active Record is used in conjunction with JSON parameter parsing. This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2016-6317. This vulnerability is similar to CVE-2012-2660, CVE-2012-2694 and CVE-2013-0155.

[source]

References

CVE Name	CVE-2016-6317
URL	https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ruby-security-ann/WccgKSKiPZA