CVE-2008-4094

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-09-30 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-89

Description

Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in Ruby on Rails before 2.1.1 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the (1) :limit and (2) :offset parameters, related to ActiveRecord, ActiveSupport, ActiveResource, ActionPack, and ActionMailer.

Affected products

Ruby on Rails: 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.9.3, 0.9.4, 0.9.4.1, 0.10.0 (+34)
rubyonrails Ruby On Rails: through 2.1.0; 0.5.0, 0.5.5, 0.5.6, 0.5.7, 0.6.0, 0.6.5 (+4)

References

http://blog.innerewut.de/2008/6/16/why-you-should-upgrade-to-rails-2-1
http://gist.github.com/8946
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-12/msg00002.html
http://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/288
http://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/964
http://secunia.com/advisories/31875
http://secunia.com/advisories/31909
http://secunia.com/advisories/31910
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/09/13/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/09/16/1
http://www.rorsecurity.info/2008/09/08/sql-injection-issue-in-limit-and-offset-parameter/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31176

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