PT-2012-4701 · Ruby · Ruby On Rails

Charlie Somerville · Published 2012-08-08 · Updated 2019-08-08 · CVE-2012-3424

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Ruby on Rails versions 3.0.0 through 3.0.15 Ruby on Rails versions 3.1.0 through 3.1.6 Ruby on Rails versions 3.2.0 through 3.2.6

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by leveraging access to an application that uses a with http digest helper method. This is demonstrated by the authenticate or request with http digest method, which is affected by the decode credentials method converting Digest Authentication strings to symbols.

Recommendations For Ruby on Rails versions 3.0.0 through 3.0.15, update to version 3.0.16 or later. For Ruby on Rails versions 3.1.0 through 3.1.6, update to version 3.1.7 or later. For Ruby on Rails versions 3.2.0 through 3.2.6, update to version 3.2.7 or later.

Fix

DoS

Improper Authentication

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-287

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-3424

GHSA-92W9-2PQW-RHJJ

RHSA-2013:0582

Affected Products

Ruby On Rails

References · 8

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-08/msg00046.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-3424 · Security Note
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0154.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-92w9-2pqw-rhjj · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/rails/rails · Note
• https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/3719bd3e95523c5518507dbe44f260f252930600 · Note
• http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2012/7/26/ann-rails-3-2-7-has-been-released · Note
• https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/244d32f2fa25147d?hl=en&dmode=source&output=gplain · Note