SB2013013001 - SQL injection in Ruby on Rails
Published: January 30, 2013 Updated: September 30, 2025
Security Bulletin ID
SB2013013001
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Data manipulation
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) SQL injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2013-0333)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary SQL queries in database.
The vulnerability exists due to lib/active_support/json/backends/yaml.rb in Ruby on Rails does not properly convert JSON data to YAML data for processing by a YAML parser. A remote attacker can execute arbitrary code, conduct SQL injection attacks, or bypass authentication via crafted data that triggers unsafe decoding.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.