Filter Skipping Vulnerability in Ruby on Rails 3.0/actionpack
Published: October 24, 2017
SECURITY IDENTIFIERS
- CVE: CVE-2011-2929 (NVD)
- GHSA: GHSA-r7q2-5gqg-6c7q
- Vendor Advisory: https://rubyonrails.org/2011/8/16/ann-rails-3-1-0-rc6
GEM
FRAMEWORK
SEVERITY
CVSS v2.0: 5.0 (Medium)
UNAFFECTED VERSIONS
< 3.0.0
PATCHED VERSIONS
~> 3.0.10
~> 3.1.0.rc6
>= 3.1.0
DESCRIPTION
The template selection functionality in actionpack/lib/action_view/template/resolver.rb in Ruby on Rails 3.0.x before 3.0.10 and 3.1.x before 3.1.0.rc6 does not properly handle glob characters, which allows remote attackers to render arbitrary views via a crafted URL, related to a "filter skipping vulnerability."
RELATED
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-2929
- http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/8/16/ann-rails-3-1-0-rc6
- https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/5f94b93279f6d0682fafb237c301302c107a9552
- https://groups.google.com/g/rubyonrails-security/c/NCCsca7TEtY/m/Ya9-T266u8sJ
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=731432
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-r7q2-5gqg-6c7q
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065109.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065212.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/17/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/19/11
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/20/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/22/13
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/22/14
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/22/5