ADVISORIES

• CVE-2006-4111 (NVD)
• GHSA-rvpq-5xqx-pfpp
• Vendor Advisory

GEM

rails

SEVERITY

CVSS v2.0: 7.5 (High)

UNAFFECTED VERSIONS

• < 1.1.0

PATCHED VERSIONS

• >= 1.1.6

DESCRIPTION

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.

RELATED

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-4111
• https://github.com/presidentbeef/rails-security-history/blob/master/vulnerabilities.md
• https://blog.evanweaver.com/2006/08/12/anatomy-of-an-attack-against-1-1-4
• https://rubyonrails.org/2006/8/10/rails-1-1-6-backports-and-full-disclosure
• http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2006/8/9/rails-1-1-5-mandatory-security-patch-and-other-tidbits
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rvpq-5xqx-pfpp
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200608-20.xml