GitHub Advisoryadvisory · RubyGems

GHSA-rxq3-gm4p-5fj4 rails vulnerable to improper authentication

CRITICAL Published 2017-10-24 Modified 2024-02-14 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2009-2422
Ecosystem
RubyGems
Packages
rails
Severity
Critical
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-287
Reviewed
2020-06-16

Affected packages

• RubyGems rails: < 2.3.3 → fixed in 2.3.3

Description

The example code for the digest authentication functionality (http_authentication.rb) in Ruby on Rails before 2.3.3 defines an authenticate_or_request_with_http_digest block that returns nil instead of false when the user does not exist, which allows context-dependent attackers to bypass authentication for applications that are derived from this example by sending an invalid username without a password.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2009-2422 The example code for the digest authentication functionality (http_authentication.rb) in Ruby on Rails before 2.3.3 defines an… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-287 Improper Authentication weakness

References