Vulnerability advisory

GHSA-92w9-2pqw-rhjj

actionpack Improper Authentication vulnerability

Published Oct 24, 2017Updated Jan 22, 2025OSV record ↗

Also known as CVE-2012-3424

Severity

Severity not reported.

Affected versions

actionpack RubyGems

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Affected	Fixed in
`3.0.0.beta` to before 3.0.16	`3.0.16`Advisories →
Also listed as affected (38) `3.0.0` `3.0.0.beta` `3.0.0.beta2` `3.0.0.beta3` `3.0.0.beta4` `3.0.0.rc` `3.0.0.rc2` `3.0.1` `3.0.10` `3.0.10.rc1` `3.0.11` `3.0.12` `3.0.12.rc1` `3.0.13` `3.0.13.rc1` `3.0.14` `3.0.15` `3.0.2` `3.0.3` `3.0.4` `3.0.4.rc1` `3.0.5` `3.0.5.rc1` `3.0.6` `3.0.6.rc1` `3.0.6.rc2` `3.0.7` `3.0.7.rc1` `3.0.7.rc2` `3.0.8` `3.0.8.rc1` `3.0.8.rc2` `3.0.8.rc4` `3.0.9` `3.0.9.rc1` `3.0.9.rc3` `3.0.9.rc4` `3.0.9.rc5`
`3.1.0` to before 3.1.7	`3.1.7`Advisories →
Also listed as affected (14) `3.1.0` `3.1.1` `3.1.1.rc1` `3.1.1.rc2` `3.1.1.rc3` `3.1.2` `3.1.2.rc1` `3.1.2.rc2` `3.1.3` `3.1.4` `3.1.4.rc1` `3.1.5` `3.1.5.rc1` `3.1.6`
`3.2.0` to before 3.2.7	`3.2.7`Advisories →
Also listed as affected (12) `3.2.0` `3.2.1` `3.2.2` `3.2.2.rc1` `3.2.3` `3.2.3.rc1` `3.2.3.rc2` `3.2.4` `3.2.4.rc1` `3.2.5` `3.2.6` `3.2.7.rc1`
All versions before 2.3.5	`2.3.5`Advisories →
Also listed as affected (48) `0.9.0` `0.9.5` `1.0.0` `1.0.1` `1.1.0` `1.10.1` `1.10.2` `1.11.0` `1.11.1` `1.11.2` `1.12.0` `1.12.1` `1.12.2` `1.12.3` `1.12.4` `1.12.5` `1.13.0` `1.13.1` `1.13.2` `1.13.3` `1.13.4` `1.13.5` `1.13.6` `1.2.0` `1.3.0` `1.3.1` `1.4.0` `1.5.0` `1.5.1` `1.6.0` `1.7.0` `1.8.0` `1.8.1` `1.9.0` `1.9.1` `2.0.0` `2.0.1` `2.0.2` `2.0.4` `2.0.5` `2.1.0` `2.1.1` `2.1.2` `2.2.2` `2.2.3` `2.3.2` `2.3.3` `2.3.4`

Description

The decode_credentials method in actionpack/lib/action_controller/metal/http_authentication.rb in Ruby on Rails before 3.0.16, 3.1.x before 3.1.7, and 3.2.x before 3.2.7 converts Digest Authentication strings to symbols, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by leveraging access to an application that uses a with_http_digest helper method, as demonstrated by the authenticate_or_request_with_http_digest method.

GHSA-92w9-2pqw-rhjj

Affected versions

actionpack RubyGems

Description

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