Medium severity · published Feb 16, 2016
CVE-2016-0753
Active Model in Ruby on Rails 4.1.x before 4.1.14.1, 4.2.x before 4.2.5.1, and 5.x before 5.0.0.beta1.1 supports the use of instance-level writers for class accessors, which…
5.3
CVSS
7.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Active Model in Ruby on Rails 4.1.x before 4.1.14.1, 4.2.x before 4.2.5.1, and 5.x before 5.0.0.beta1.1 supports the use of instance-level writers for class accessors, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended validation steps via crafted parameters.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)7.2% · higher than 94% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
22; 23 · source: NVD
LE
Leap · Opensuse
42.1 · source: NVD
RA
Rails · Rubyonrails
4.1.0 before 4.1.14.1; 4.2.0 before 4.2.5.1; 5.0.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-0753
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-0753
Mailing List
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178041.html
Mailing List
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178043.html
Mailing List
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178047.html
Mailing List
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178065.html
Mailing List
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178066.html
Mailing List
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00053.html
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