activemodel 4.2.1.rc2
Possible Input Validation Circumvention in Active Model
medium severity CVE-2016-0753>= 5.0.0.beta1.1
, ~> 4.2.5, >= 4.2.5.1
, ~> 4.1.14, >= 4.1.14.1
<= 4.0.13
There is a possible input validation circumvention vulnerability in Active Model. This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2016-0753.
Versions Affected: 4.1.0 and newer Not affected: 4.0.13 and older Fixed Versions: 5.0.0.beta1.1, 4.2.5.1, 4.1.14.1
Impact
Code that uses Active Model based models (including Active Record models) and does not validate user input before passing it to the model can be subject to an attack where specially crafted input will cause the model to skip validations.
Vulnerable code will look something like this:
SomeModel.new(unverified_user_input)
Rails users using Strong Parameters are generally not impacted by this issue
as they are encouraged to whitelist parameters and must specifically opt-out
of input verification using the permit!
method to allow mass assignment.
For example, a vulnerable Rails application will have code that looks like this:
def create
params.permit! # allow all parameters
@user = User.new params[:users]
end
Active Model and Active Record objects are not equipped to handle arbitrary user input. It is up to the application to verify input before passing it to Active Model models. Rails users already have Strong Parameters in place to handle white listing, but applications using Active Model and Active Record outside of a Rails environment may be impacted.
All users running an affected release should either upgrade or use one of the workarounds immediately.
Releases
The FIXED releases are available at the normal locations.
Workarounds
There are several workarounds depending on the application. Inside a Rails
application, stop using permit!
. Outside a Rails application, either use
Hash#slice to select the parameters you need, or integrate Strong Parameters
with your application.
Patches
To aid users who aren't able to upgrade immediately we have provided patches for the two supported release series. They are in git-am format and consist of a single changeset.
- 4-1-validation_skip.patch - Patch for 4.1 series
- 4-2-validation_skip.patch - Patch for 4.2 series
- 5-0-validation_skip.patch - Patch for 5.0 series
Please note that only the 4.1.x and 4.2.x series are supported at present. Users of earlier unsupported releases are advised to upgrade as soon as possible as we cannot guarantee the continued availability of security fixes for unsupported releases.
Credits
Thanks to:
John Backus from BlockScore for reporting this!
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