GSD-2020-8151

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2020-05-05 00:00
Details
activeresource contains a lack of encoding flaw in the element_path function of lib/active_resource/base.rb. There is an issue with the way Active Resource encodes data before querying the back end server. This encoding mechanism can allow specially crafted requests to possibly access data that may not be expected. Impacted code will look something like this: ``` require 'activeresource' class Test < ActiveResource::Base self.site = 'http://127.0.0.1:3000' end Test.exists?(untrusted_user_input) ``` Where untrusted user input is passed to an Active Resource model. Specially crafted untrusted input can cause Active Resource to access data in an unexpected way and possibly leak information. Workarounds ------------- For those that can't upgrade, the following monkey patch can be applied: ``` module ActiveResource class Base class << self def element_path(id, prefix_options = {}, query_options = nil) check_prefix_options(prefix_options) prefix_options, query_options = split_options(prefix_options) if query_options.nil? "#{prefix(prefix_options)}#{collection_name}/#{URI.encode_www_form_component(id.to_s)}#{format_extension}#{query_string(query_options)}" end end end end ```
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