PT-2013-4237 · Ruby · Ruby On Rails

Joernchen · Published 2013-04-22 · Updated 2022-05-14 · CVE-2013-3221

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v4.0

9.3

Critical

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Ruby on Rails versions 2.3.x through 3.2.x

Description The issue allows remote attackers to conduct data-type injection attacks against Ruby on Rails applications. This is due to the Active Record component not ensuring that the declared data type of a database column is used during comparisons of input values to stored values in that column. The attack can be carried out via a crafted value, as demonstrated by unintended interaction between the "typed XML" feature and a MySQL database.

Recommendations For versions 2.3.x through 3.2.x, update to a version that ensures the declared data type of a database column is used during comparisons of input values to stored values in that column. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the use of the "typed XML" feature to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

RCE

SQL injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

CWE-89

Related Identifiers

CVE-2013-3221

GHSA-F57C-HX33-HVH8

Affected Products

Ruby On Rails

References · 14

• 🔥 https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/activerecord/CVE-2013-3221.yml · Exploit
• 🔥 http://phenoelit.org/blog/archives/2013/02/index.html · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-3221 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-f57c-hx33-hvh8 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2013-3221 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2013-3221 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-3221 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/rails/rails · Note
• http://pl.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/17yajp/mysql_madness_and_rails · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/24/7 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/06/7 · Note
• https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/1f3bc0b88a60c1ce?dmode=source&output=gplain · Note
• https://gist.github.com/dakull/5442275 · Note
• https://web.archive.org/web/20130825191249/http://phenoelit.org/blog/archives/2013/02/index.html · Note