GHSA-jmgw-6vjg-jjwgHigh

actionpack Improper Input Validation vulnerability

Published
October 24, 2017
Last Modified
February 15, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

active_support/core_ext/hash/conversions.rb in Ruby on Rails before 2.3.15, 3.0.x before 3.0.19, 3.1.x before 3.1.10, and 3.2.x before 3.2.11 does not properly restrict casts of string values, which allows remote attackers to conduct object-injection attacks and execute arbitrary code, or cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) involving nested XML entity references, by leveraging Action Pack support for (1) YAML type conversion or (2) Symbol type conversion.

🎯 Affected products4

  • rubygems/actionpack:< 2.3.15
  • rubygems/actionpack:>= 3.0.0, < 3.0.19
  • rubygems/actionpack:>= 3.1.0, < 3.1.10
  • rubygems/actionpack:>= 3.2.0, < 3.2.11

🔗 References (16)