CVE-2014-3482

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2014-3482  

It was discovered that Active Record did not properly quote values of the bitstring type attributes when using the PostgreSQL database adapter. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to conduct an SQL injection attack against applications using Active Record.

It was discovered that Active Record did not properly quote values of the bitstring type attributes when using the PostgreSQL database adapter. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to conduct an SQL injection attack against applications using Active Record.

Find out more about CVE-2014-3482 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This issue does not affect CloudForms 5 as it does not use the "bitstring" data type anywhere in the product.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 4.3
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (ruby193-rubygem-activerecord) RHSA-2014:0876 2014-07-14
Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (ruby193-rubygem-activerecord) RHSA-2014:0876 2014-07-14

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1 ruby193-rubygem-activerecord Will not fix
Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux ror40-rubygem-activerecord Not affected
Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 1 ruby193-rubygem-activerecord Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0 ruby193-rubygem-activerecord Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 3.0 ruby193-rubygem-activerecord Will not fix

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the Ruby on Rails project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Sean Griffin of thoughtbot as the original reporter.