Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Action Mailer - CVE-2014-3514
Published: August 20, 2014 / Updated: July 28, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU32466
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-3514
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.
activerecord/lib/active_record/relation/query_methods.rb in Active Record in Ruby on Rails 4.0.x before 4.0.9 and 4.1.x before 4.1.5 allows remote attackers to bypass the strong parameters protection mechanism via crafted input to an application that makes create_with calls.
Affected software
Action Mailer
ruby-actionmailer (Alpine package)
ruby-actionmailer (Alpine package)
How to mitigate CVE-2014-3514
Install update from vendor's website.
Action Mailer - addressed in versions 4.0.9, 4.1.5
ruby-actionmailer (Alpine package) - update to 4.0.12-r0
ruby-actionmailer (Alpine package) - update to 4.0.12-r0