CVE-2015-7577

medium
Published 2016-01-25 · Modified 2024-02-16
CVSS v3
5.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS v2
5.0
VIR risk
5.3

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
63%
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-2015-7577

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7577.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed2:4.2.5.1-1
debian debianbullseyefixed2:4.2.5.1-1
debian debianforkyfixed2:4.2.5.1-1
debian debiansidfixed2:4.2.5.1-1
debian debiantrixiefixed2:4.2.5.1-1

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
ruby RubyGemsactiverecord!~> 3.0.0,!< 3.0.0||<>= 5.0.0.beta1.1>= 5.0.0.beta1.1
ruby RubyGemsactiverecord>=3.1.0,<3.2.22.13.2.22.1
ruby RubyGemsactiverecord>=4.0.0,<4.1.14.14.1.14.1
ruby RubyGemsactiverecord>=4.2.0,<4.2.5.14.2.5.1
ruby RubyGemsactiverecord>=5.0.0.beta1,<5.0.0.beta1.15.0.0.beta1.1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
rubyonrailsrails4.0.0
rubyonrailsrails4.0.1
rubyonrailsrails4.0.2
rubyonrailsrails4.0.3
rubyonrailsrails4.0.4
rubyonrailsrails4.0.5
rubyonrailsrails4.0.6
rubyonrailsrails4.0.7
rubyonrailsrails4.0.8
rubyonrailsrails4.0.9
rubyonrailsrails4.0.10
rubyonrailsrails4.1.0
rubyonrailsrails4.1.1
rubyonrailsrails4.1.2
rubyonrailsrails4.1.3
rubyonrailsrails4.1.4
rubyonrailsrails4.1.5
rubyonrailsrails4.1.6
rubyonrailsrails4.1.7
rubyonrailsrails4.1.7.1
rubyonrailsrails4.1.8
rubyonrailsrails4.1.9
rubyonrailsrails4.1.10
rubyonrailsrails4.1.12
rubyonrailsrails4.1.13
rubyonrailsrails4.1.14
rubyonrailsrails4.2.0
rubyonrailsrails4.2.1
rubyonrailsrails4.2.2
rubyonrailsrails4.2.3
rubyonrailsrails4.2.4
rubyonrailsrails4.2.5
rubyonrailsrails5.0.0
rubyonrailsruby_on_rails{"endIncluding":"3.2.22"}
rubyonrailsruby_on_rails4.0.10
rubyonrailsruby_on_rails4.0.11
rubyonrailsruby_on_rails4.0.11.1
rubyonrailsruby_on_rails4.0.12
rubyonrailsruby_on_rails4.0.13
rubyonrailsruby_on_rails4.1.11

References

CWEs

CWE-284

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