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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2012-6497

Medium
5/10

Summary

The Authlogic gem for Ruby on Rails, when used with certain versions before 3.3.0, makes potentially unsafe "find_by_id" method calls, which might allow remote attackers to conduct CVE-2012-6496 SQL injection attacks via a crafted parameter in environments that have a known "secret_token" value, as demonstrated by a value contained in "secret_token.rb" in an open-source product.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL
  • NONE

CWE-200 - Information Exposure

An information exposure vulnerability is categorized as an information flow (IF) weakness, which can potentially allow unauthorized access to otherwise classified information in the application, such as confidential personal information (demographics, financials, health records, etc.), business secrets, and the application's internal environment.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published