CVE-2015-7577

MEDIUM

Ruby on Rails 3.1.x-3.2.22, 4.0.x-4.1.14, 4.2.x-4.2.5, 5.x-beta1 - Improper Access Control via Nested Attributes

Title source: llm

Description

activerecord/lib/active_record/nested_attributes.rb in Active Record in Ruby on Rails 3.1.x and 3.2.x before 3.2.22.1, 4.0.x and 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 does not properly implement a certain destroy option, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended change restrictions by leveraging use of the nested attributes feature.

References (11)

Core 11

Core References

Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00043.html

Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00034.html

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178041.html

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178065.html

Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00053.html

Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=ruby-security-ann/cawsWcQ6c8g/LATIsglZEgAJ

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034816

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81806

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3464

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0296.html

Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/25/10

Scores

CVSS v3 5.3

EPSS 0.0121

EPSS Percentile 79.2%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Details

CWE

CWE-284

Status published

Products (24)

rubygems/activerecord 3.1.0 - 3.2.22.1RubyGems

rubyonrails/rails 4.0.0 (4 CPE variants)

rubyonrails/rails 4.0.1 (5 CPE variants)

rubyonrails/rails 4.0.2

rubyonrails/rails 4.0.3

rubyonrails/rails 4.0.4 (2 CPE variants)

rubyonrails/rails 4.0.5

rubyonrails/rails 4.0.6 (4 CPE variants)

rubyonrails/rails 4.0.7

rubyonrails/rails 4.0.8

... and 14 more

Published Feb 16, 2016

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026