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CVE-2012-2661

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2012-06-22 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-89

Description

The Active Record component in Ruby on Rails 3.0.x before 3.0.13, 3.1.x before 3.1.5, and 3.2.x before 3.2.4 does not properly implement the passing of request data to a where method in an ActiveRecord class, which allows remote attackers to conduct certain SQL injection attacks via nested query parameters that leverage unintended recursion, a related issue to CVE-2012-2695.

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 (+63)
• rubyonrails Ruby On Rails: 3.0.4

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00014.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00016.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-08/msg00046.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0154.html
• https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/fc2da6c627fc92df?dmode=source&output=gplain
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00014.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00016.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-08/msg00046.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0154.html
• https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/fc2da6c627fc92df?dmode=source&output=gplain

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