CVE-2012-3424

Ruby on Rails 3.x < 3.0.16, 3.1.x < 3.1.7, 3.2.x < 3.2.7 - Denial of Service via Digest Authentication String Conversion

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The decode_credentials method in actionpack/lib/action_controller/metal/http_authentication.rb in Ruby on Rails 3.x before 3.0.16, 3.1.x before 3.1.7, and 3.2.x before 3.2.7 converts Digest Authentication strings to symbols, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by leveraging access to an application that uses a with_http_digest helper method, as demonstrated by the authenticate_or_request_with_http_digest method.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0154.html
Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-08/msg00046.html

Scores

EPSS 0.0098
EPSS Percentile 77.0%

Details

CWE
CWE-287
Status published
Products (17)
rubygems/actionpack 3.0.0.beta - 3.0.16RubyGems
rubyonrails/rails 3.0.0 (7 CPE variants)
rubyonrails/rails 3.0.1 (2 CPE variants)
rubyonrails/rails 3.0.2 (2 CPE variants)
rubyonrails/rails 3.0.3
rubyonrails/rails 3.0.4 rc1
rubyonrails/rails 3.0.5 (2 CPE variants)
rubyonrails/rails 3.0.6 (3 CPE variants)
rubyonrails/rails 3.0.7 (3 CPE variants)
rubyonrails/rails 3.0.8 (5 CPE variants)
... and 7 more
Published Aug 08, 2012
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026