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CERTA-2012-AVI-409

Vulnerability from certfr_avis - Published: 2012-07-30 - Updated: 2012-07-30

Une vulnérabilité a été corrigée dans Ruby on Rails. Cette vulnérabilité peut être utilisée par une personne malveillante distante afin de provoquer un déni de service.

Solution

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None

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Description
Ruby on Rails	Ruby on Rails	Ruby on Rails 3.1.x versions antérieures à 3.1.7 ;
Ruby on Rails	Ruby on Rails	Ruby on Rails 3.0.x versions antérieures à 3.0.16 ;
Ruby on Rails	Ruby on Rails	Ruby on Rails 3.2.x versions antérieures à 3.2.7.

References

Title

Publication Time

CVE-2012-3424 (GCVE-0-2012-3424)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-08-08 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 20:05

Summary

The decode_credentials method in actionpack/lib/action_controller/metal/http_authentication.rb in Ruby on Rails 3.x before 3.0.16, 3.1.x before 3.1.7, and 3.2.x before 3.2.7 converts Digest Authentication strings to symbols, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by leveraging access to an application that uses a with_http_digest helper method, as demonstrated by the authenticate_or_request_with_http_digest method.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

redhat CNA under the redhat root

CNA scorecard B 81/100 over 1011 records in the last 180 days details

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-secur…	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2012/7/26/ann-rails…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-0…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0154.html	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT

Date Public

2012-07-26 00:00

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