CVE-2014-3514

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-08-20 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

activerecord/lib/active_record/relation/query_methods.rb in Active Record in Ruby on Rails 4.0.x before 4.0.9 and 4.1.x before 4.1.5 allows remote attackers to bypass the strong parameters protection mechanism via crafted input to an application that makes create_with calls.

Affected products

Ruby on Rails: 4.0.0, 4.0.0-beta, 4.0.0-rc1, 4.0.0-rc2, 4.0.1, 4.0.1-rc1 (+22)

References

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/18/10
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1102.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/60347
https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=rubyonrails-security/M4chq5Sb540/CC1Fh0Y_NWwJ
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/18/10
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1102.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/60347
https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=rubyonrails-security/M4chq5Sb540/CC1Fh0Y_NWwJ

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