THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2016-6317
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2016-6317

Rails vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
3.9%
EPSS pct
89th
Exploited
No known
Action Record in Ruby on Rails 4.2.x before 4.2.7.1 does not properly consider differences in parameter handling between the Active Record component and the JSON implementation, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended database-query restrictions and perform NULL checks or trigger missing WHERE clauses via a crafted request, as demonstrated by certain "[nil]" values, a related issue to CVE-2012-2660, CVE-2012-2694, and CVE-2013-0155.
Affected vendor
Rubyonrails
Affected product
Rails
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-284 — Improper Access Control
  • CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference
Published
2016-09-07

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to integrity.

Its EPSS score of 3.9% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 89% of all scored CVEs.

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