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TITLE:
Ruby on Rails Filter Bypass and SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA43278

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RELEASE DATE:
2011-02-10

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DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Ruby on Rails, which can
be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security
restrictions and conduct SQL injection attacks.

1) The filtering code does not properly work for case insensitive
file systems, which can be exploited to bypass the filter by e.g.
varying the case in certain action parameters.

Note: This only affects deployments on case insensitive file
systems.

2) Input passed to the "limit()" function is not properly sanitised
before being used in SQL queries. This can be exploited to manipulate
SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions 3.0.0 through 3.0.3.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 3.0.4 or apply patches.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits:
1) Jan M. Faber, supersaas
2) Eaden McKee, Webforce Ltd

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
1)
http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/browse_thread/thread/362f1fbc1761b336
2)
http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/browse_thread/thread/b658902cf6bf4eed

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