binarylogic/authlogic · Security
Authlogic Information Exposure vulnerability
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-rx7j-mw4c-76g9
- CVE ID
- CVE-2012-6497
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
Description
The Authlogic gem for Ruby on Rails prior to version 3.3.0 makes potentially unsafe find_by_id method calls, which might allow remote attackers to conduct CVE-2012-6496 SQL injection attacks via a crafted parameter in environments that have a known secret_token value, as demonstrated by a value contained in secret_token.rb in an open-source product.
CWEs
- CWE-200 · Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6497 ↗
- http://blog.phusion.nl/2013/01/03/rails-sql-injection-vulnerability-hold-your-horses-here-are-the-facts/ ↗
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/01/03/12 ↗
- https://github.com/binarylogic/authlogic/pull/341 ↗
- https://github.com/binarylogic/authlogic/commit/1d57a6c4abe43a3c0b4ef578486ea00e1f7a9873 ↗
- https://web.archive.org/web/20130104161608/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/57084 ↗
- https://web.archive.org/web/20130116043311/http://phenoelit.org/blog/archives/2012/12/21/let_me_github_that_for_you/index.html ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rx7j-mw4c-76g9 ↗