CVE-2011-0448

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-02-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-89

Description

Ruby on Rails 3.0.x before 3.0.4 does not ensure that arguments to the limit function specify integer values, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct SQL injection attacks via a non-numeric argument.

Affected products

Ruby on Rails: 3.0.0, 3.0.0-beta, 3.0.0-beta2, 3.0.0-beta3, 3.0.0-beta4, 3.0.0-rc (+7)

References

http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/4e19864cf6ad40ad?dmode=source&output=gplain
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/057650.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/43278
http://securitytracker.com/id?1025063
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/2/8/new-releases-2-3-11-and-3-0-4
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0877
https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/354da43ab0a10b3b7b3f9cb0619aa562c3be8474
http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/4e19864cf6ad40ad?dmode=source&output=gplain
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/057650.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/43278
http://securitytracker.com/id?1025063
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/2/8/new-releases-2-3-11-and-3-0-4

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