CVE-2015-7577

Published: 16 February 2016

activerecord/lib/active_record/nested_attributes.rb in Active Record in Ruby on Rails 3.1.x and 3.2.x before 3.2.22.1, 4.0.x and 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 does not properly implement a certain destroy option, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended change restrictions by leveraging use of the nested attributes feature.

Notes

In Oneiric-Saucy, rails package is just for transition;
The rails package contains actual code from vivid onward

Status

Severity score breakdown

References

• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-7577
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian