PT-2015-6106 · Ruby+1 · Ruby On Rails+1

Matthew Draper + 1 · Published 2015-07-26 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2015-3227

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 prior to 4.1.11 Ruby on Rails versions 4.2.x prior to 4.2.2

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (SystemStackError) via a large XML document depth when JDOM or REXML is enabled in the jdom.rb and rexml.rb components in Active Support.

Recommendations For Ruby on Rails versions prior to 4.1.11, update to version 4.1.11 or later. For Ruby on Rails versions 4.2.x prior to 4.2.2, update to version 4.2.2 or later. As a temporary workaround, consider disabling the JDOM or REXML components until a patch is available.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-3227

DLA-603-1

DSA-3464-1

GHSA-35C4-F3RQ-F9G3

GHSA-J96R-XVJQ-R9PG

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10574-1

SUSE-SU-2016:0047-1

SUSE-SU-2016:0082-1

SUSE-SU-2016_0047-1

Affected Products

Ruby On Rails

Suse

References · 32

• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-3227 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-07/msg00050.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-3227 · Security Note
• http://debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3464 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-3227 · Vendor Advisory
• https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=rubyonrails-security/bahr2JLnxvk/x4EocXnHPp8J · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-3227 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-3227 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3464-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-3227 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2015-3227 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10574-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-j96r-xvjq-r9pg · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-35c4-f3rq-f9g3 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:0047-1 · Vendor Advisory