GHSA-rvpq-5xqx-pfpp

Ruby on Rails vulnerable to code injection

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2006-4111

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
RubyGems	rails	>= 1.1.0, < 1.1.6	1.1.6

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

Ruby on Rails before 1.1.5 allows remote attackers to execute Ruby code with "severe" or "serious" impact via a File Upload request with an HTTP header that modifies the LOAD_PATH variable, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-4112.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-4111 advisory
https://github.com/presidentbeef/rails-security-history/blob/master/vulnerabilities.md web
https://github.com/rails/rails package
https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rails/CVE-2006-4111.yml web
https://web.archive.org/web/20200301174340/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19454 web
https://web.archive.org/web/20200808083046/http://securitytracker.com/id?1016673 web
http://blog.koehntopp.de/archives/1367-Ruby-On-Rails-Mandatory-Mystery-Patch.html web
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2006/8/9/rails-1-1-5-mandatory-security-patch-and-other-tidbits web
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200608-20.xml web
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_21_sr.html web