CVE-2006-4111

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-08-14 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

Ruby on Rails before 1.1.5 allows remote attackers to execute Ruby code with "severe" or "serious" impact via a File Upload request with an HTTP header that modifies the LOAD_PATH variable, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-4112.

Affected products

Ruby on Rails: 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.9.3, 0.9.4, 0.9.4.1, 0.10.0 (+16)
rubyonrails Ruby On Rails: through 1.1.4; 0.5.0, 0.5.5, 0.5.6, 0.5.7, 0.6.0, 0.6.5 (+4)

References

http://blog.koehntopp.de/archives/1367-Ruby-On-Rails-Mandatory-Mystery-Patch.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/21466
http://secunia.com/advisories/21749
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016673
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2006/8/9/rails-1-1-5-mandatory-security-patch-and-other-tidbits
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200608-20.xml
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_21_sr.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19454
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3237
http://blog.koehntopp.de/archives/1367-Ruby-On-Rails-Mandatory-Mystery-Patch.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/21466
http://secunia.com/advisories/21749

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