ADVISORIES

• CVE-2010-3933 (NVD)
• GHSA-gjxw-5w2q-7grf
• Vendor Advisory

GEM

activerecord

FRAMEWORK

Ruby on Rails

SEVERITY

CVSS v2.0: 6.4 (Medium)

UNAFFECTED VERSIONS

• < 2.3.9

PATCHED VERSIONS

• ~> 2.3.9
• >= 3.0.1

DESCRIPTION

Ruby on Rails 2.3.9 and 3.0.0 does not properly handle nested attributes, which allows remote attackers to modify arbitrary records by changing the names of parameters for form inputs.

Patches are available for 2.3 and 3.0 series.

RELATED

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-3933
• http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2010/10/15/security-vulnerability-in-nested-attributes-code-in-ruby-on-rails-2-3-9-and-3-0-0
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gjxw-5w2q-7grf
• https://web.archive.org/web/20111225083933/http://secunia.com/advisories/41930
• https://web.archive.org/web/20201208053819/http://securitytracker.com/id?1024624