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CVE-2015-10083: harrystech Dynosaur-Rails application_controller.rb basic_auth improper authentication

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• 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: none known
• Published: 2023-02-21 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-287

Description

A vulnerability has been found in harrystech Dynosaur-Rails and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is the function basic_auth of the file app/controllers/application_controller.rb. The manipulation leads to improper authentication. This product does not use versioning. This is why information about affected and unaffected releases are unavailable. The patch is named 04b223813f0e336aab50bff140d0f5889c31dbec. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The associated identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-221503.

Affected products

• harrystech Dynosaur-Rails: before 2015-09-15 — fixed in 2015-09-15

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: harrystech Dynosaur-Rails 2015-09-15. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/harrystech/dynosaur-rails/commit/04b223813f0e336aab50bff140d0f5889c31dbec
• https://github.com/harrystech/dynosaur-rails/pull/11
• https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.221503
• https://vuldb.com/?id.221503
• https://github.com/harrystech/dynosaur-rails/commit/04b223813f0e336aab50bff140d0f5889c31dbec
• https://github.com/harrystech/dynosaur-rails/pull/11
• https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.221503
• https://vuldb.com/?id.221503

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