Ruby on Rails up to 3.1.x Serialize Helper privileges management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability labeled as problematic has been found in Ruby on Rails up to 3.1.x. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Serialize Helper. Such manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2013-0277. No exploit exists. The affected component should be upgraded.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Ruby on Rails up to 3.1.x (Programming Language Software) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown part of the component Serialize Helper. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

ActiveRecord in Ruby on Rails before 2.3.17 and 3.x before 3.1.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code via crafted serialized attributes that cause the +serialize+ helper to deserialize arbitrary YAML.

The weakness was disclosed 02/11/2013 as confirmed mailinglist post (oss-sec). The advisory is available at seclists.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2013-0277 since 12/06/2012. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 64734 (Fedora 17 : rubygem-activerecord-3.0.11-6.fc17 (2013-2351)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Fedora Local Security Checks. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 166195 (SUSE Security Update for RubyOnRails (openSUSE-SU-2013:0338-1)).

Upgrading to version 3.1.0 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (82012), Tenable (64734), SecurityFocus (BID 57898†), OSVDB (90073†) and Secunia (SA52112†). The entries VDB-7681, VDB-7683 and VDB-10949 are pretty similar. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Nessus ID: 64734
Nessus Name: Fedora 17 : rubygem-activerecord-3.0.11-6.fc17 (2013-2351)
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OpenVAS ID: 892620
OpenVAS Name: Debian Security Advisory DSA 2620-1 (rails - several vulnerabilities
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Ruby on Rails 3.1.0

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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: seclists.org
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2013-0277 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2013-0277
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-7682

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X-Force: 82012
SecurityFocus: 57898 - Ruby on Rails CVE-2013-0277 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Secunia: 52112 - Ruby on Rails Two Vulnerabilities, Moderately Critical
OSVDB: 90073
SecurityTracker: 1028109 - Rails Serialized Attributes Processing Flaw Lets Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code and Deny Service
Vulnerability Center: 38453 - Ruby on Rails Remote Arbitrary Code Execution or Denial of Service via Crafted Serialized Attributes, Critical

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Entryinfo

Created: 02/13/2013 09:25
Updated: 05/05/2021 08:10
Changes: 02/13/2013 09:25 (80), 04/24/2017 15:05 (6), 05/05/2021 08:10 (3)
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Committer: olku
Cache ID: 216:C2E:103

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