National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-6497

Overview

The Authlogic gem for Ruby on Rails, when used with certain versions before 3.2.10, makes potentially unsafe find_by_id method calls, which might allow remote attackers to conduct CVE-2012-6496 SQL injection attacks via a crafted parameter in environments that have a known secret_token value, as demonstrated by a value contained in secret_token.rb in an open-source product.

Impact

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External Source: MISC

Name: http://phenoelit.org/blog/archives/2012/12/21/let_me_github_that_for_you/index.html

Hyperlink:http://phenoelit.org/blog/archives/2012/12/21/let_me_github_that_for_you/index.html

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20130103 Re: SQL Injection Vulnerability in Ruby on Rails (CVE-2012-5664)

Hyperlink:http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/01/03/12

External Source: MISC

Name: http://blog.phusion.nl/2013/01/03/rails-sql-injection-vulnerability-hold-your-horses-here-are-the-facts/

Hyperlink:http://blog.phusion.nl/2013/01/03/rails-sql-injection-vulnerability-hold-your-horses-here-are-the-facts/