RHEL 6 / 7 : ruby193-rubygem-activerecord (RHSA-2014:0876)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 210198

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for ruby193-rubygem-activerecord.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2014:0876 advisory.

Ruby on Rails is a model-view-controller (MVC) framework for web application development. Active Record implements object-relational mapping for accessing database entries using objects.

It was discovered that Active Record did not properly quote values of the bitstring type attributes when using the PostgreSQL database adapter.
A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to conduct an SQL injection attack against applications using Active Record. (CVE-2014-3482)

Red Hat would like to thank the Ruby on Rails project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Sean Griffin of thoughtbot as the original reporter.

All ruby193-rubygem-activerecord users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL ruby193-rubygem-activerecord package based on the guidance in RHSA-2014:0876.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 210198

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2014-0876.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 11/4/2024

Updated: 11/4/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-3482

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby193-rubygem-activerecord-doc, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby193-rubygem-activerecord, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/14/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/2/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3482

CWE: 89

RHSA: 2014:0876

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