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CVE-2008-7309

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2012-04-05 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-255

Description

Insoshi before 20080920 does not properly restrict the use of a hash to provide values for a model's attributes, which allows remote attackers to set the ForumPost user_id value via a modified URL, related to a "mass assignment" vulnerability.

Affected products

• Insoshi: through 20080919

References

• http://blog.mhartl.com/2008/09/21/finding-and-fixing-mass-assignment-problems-in-rails-applications/
• http://railspikes.com/2008/9/22/is-your-rails-application-safe-from-mass-assignment
• http://blog.mhartl.com/2008/09/21/finding-and-fixing-mass-assignment-problems-in-rails-applications/
• http://railspikes.com/2008/9/22/is-your-rails-application-safe-from-mass-assignment

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