CVE-2016-0753

medium

Description

Active Model in Ruby on Rails 4.1.x before 4.1.14.1, 4.2.x before 4.2.5.1, and 5.x before 5.0.0.beta1.1 supports the use of instance-level writers for class accessors, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended validation steps via crafted parameters.

References

Advisories
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http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/25/14

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3464

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0296.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00043.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00053.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178066.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178065.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178047.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178043.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178041.html

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-v543-gqhh-6gww

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-543v-gj2c-r3ch

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-02-16

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.02082