CVE-2015-7577

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-02-16 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-284

Description

activerecord/lib/active_record/nested_attributes.rb in Active Record in Ruby on Rails 3.1.x and 3.2.x before 3.2.22.1, 4.0.x and 4.1.x before 4.1.14.1, 4.2.x before 4.2.5.1, and 5.x before 5.0.0.beta1.1 does not properly implement a certain destroy option, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended change restrictions by leveraging use of the nested attributes feature.

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 (+72)
rubyonrails Ruby On Rails: through 3.2.22; 4.0.10-rc2, 4.0.11, 4.0.11.1, 4.0.12, 4.0.13, 4.0.13-rc1 (+1)

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178041.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178065.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00053.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00034.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00043.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0296.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3464
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/25/10
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81806
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034816
https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=ruby-security-ann/cawsWcQ6c8g/LATIsglZEgAJ
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178041.html

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