CVE-2012-6496

NameCVE-2012-6496
DescriptionSQL injection vulnerability in the Active Record component in Ruby on Rails before 3.0.18, 3.1.x before 3.1.9, and 3.2.x before 3.2.10 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via a crafted request that leverages incorrect behavior of dynamic finders in applications that can use unexpected data types in certain find_by_ method calls.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-2597-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
rails (PTS)bullseye (security), bullseye2:6.0.3.7+dfsg-2+deb11u2fixed
bookworm2:6.1.7.3+dfsg-2~deb12u1fixed
sid, trixie2:6.1.7.3+dfsg-4fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
railssourcesqueeze2.3.5-1.2+squeeze4DSA-2597-1
railssource(unstable)2.3.14.1
ruby-activerecord-2.3source(unstable)2.3.14-3
ruby-activerecord-3.2source(unstable)3.2.6-3

Notes

Starting with 2.3.14.1 rails is a transition package
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