CVE-2012-6497 Authlogic Information Exposure vulnerability

What is CVE-2012-6497?

CVE-2012-6497 is a medium-severity SQL injection vulnerability in Rubyonrails Rails, published on 4 Jan 2013. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-89

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-6497?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including authlogic. It affects 1 product.

Products include Rubyonrails Rails.

How do I fix CVE-2012-6497?

Upgrade authlogic to 3.3.0 or later.

Use parameterised queries everywhere and never build SQL by joining strings. Upgrade affected software first; a web application firewall only buys time. More about SQL injection.

Is CVE-2012-6497 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-6497 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2012-6497, GHSA-rx7j-mw4c-76g9.