CVE-2012-2661

medium
Published 2012-05-31 · Modified 2024-12-05
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
5.0
VIR risk
5.0

Description

The Active Record component in Ruby on Rails 3.0.x before 3.0.13, 3.1.x before 3.1.5, and 3.2.x before 3.2.4 does not properly implement the passing of request data to a where method in an ActiveRecord class, which allows remote attackers to conduct certain SQL injection attacks via nested query parameters that leverage unintended recursion, a related issue to CVE-2012-2695.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-2661

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed0
debian debianbullseyefixed0
debian debianforkyfixed0
debian debiansidfixed0
debian debiantrixiefixed0

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
ruby RubyGemsactiverecord!~> 2.3.14||<~> 3.0.13~> 3.0.13
ruby RubyGemsactiverecord>=3.0.0,<3.0.133.0.13
ruby RubyGemsactiverecord>=3.1.0,<3.1.53.1.5
ruby RubyGemsactiverecord>=3.2.0,<3.2.43.2.4

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
rubyonrailsrails3.0.0
rubyonrailsrails3.0.1
rubyonrailsrails3.0.2
rubyonrailsrails3.0.3
rubyonrailsrails3.0.4
rubyonrailsrails3.0.5
rubyonrailsrails3.0.6
rubyonrailsrails3.0.7
rubyonrailsrails3.0.8
rubyonrailsrails3.0.9
rubyonrailsrails3.0.10
rubyonrailsrails3.0.11
rubyonrailsrails3.0.12
rubyonrailsrails3.0.13
rubyonrailsruby_on_rails3.0.4
rubyonrailsrails3.1.0
rubyonrailsrails3.1.1
rubyonrailsrails3.1.2
rubyonrailsrails3.1.3
rubyonrailsrails3.1.4
rubyonrailsrails3.1.5
rubyonrailsrails3.2.0
rubyonrailsrails3.2.1
rubyonrailsrails3.2.2
rubyonrailsrails3.2.3
rubyonrailsrails3.2.4

References

CWEs

CWE-89

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.