SB2023011833 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Ruby on Rails
Published: January 18, 2023
Breakdown by Severity
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 6 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-22796)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a regular expression based denial of service (ReDoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input in Active Support in Inflector.underscore. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a regular expression based denial of service (ReDoS) attack.
2) SQL injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-22794)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary SQL queries in database.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data in the ActiveRecord comments. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted request to the affected application and execute arbitrary SQL commands within the application database.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to read, delete, modify data in database and gain complete control over the affected application.
3) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-44566)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input in ActiveRecord’s PostgreSQL adapter. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
4) Open redirect (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-22797)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to redirect victims to arbitrary URL.
The vulnerability exists due to improper sanitization of user-supplied data in Action Pack. A remote attacker can create a link that leads to a trusted website, however, when clicked, redirects the victim to arbitrary domain.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to perform a phishing attack and steal potentially sensitive information.
5) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-22795)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input in Action Dispatch. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
6) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-22792)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input in Action Dispatch. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.