PT-2006-4952 · Ruby · Ruby On Rails

Published 2006-08-14 · Updated 2019-08-08 · CVE-2006-4111

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Ruby on Rails versions prior to 1.1.5

Description The issue allows remote attackers to execute Ruby code, which has a severe or serious impact. This is achieved via a File Upload request that modifies the LOAD PATH variable through an HTTP header.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.1.5, update to version 1.1.5 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting file upload capabilities to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

RCE

Code Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-94

Related Identifiers

CVE-2006-4111

GHSA-RVPQ-5XQX-PFPP

Affected Products

Ruby On Rails

References · 20

• 🔥 https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rails/CVE-2006-4111.yml · Exploit
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3237 · Vendor Advisory
• http://blog.koehntopp.de/archives/1367-Ruby-On-Rails-Mandatory-Mystery-Patch.html · Patch
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21466 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2006-4111 · Vendor Advisory
• http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2006/8/9/rails-1-1-5-mandatory-security-patch-and-other-tidbits · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-rvpq-5xqx-pfpp · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/19454 · Patch
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2006-4111 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21749 · Vendor Advisory
• http://novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_21_sr.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200608-20.xml · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-4111 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2006-4111 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/rails/rails · Note