CVE-2012-6497 (GCVE-0-2012-6497)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2013-01-04 02:00
Modified
2024-08-06 21:28
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
The Authlogic gem for Ruby on Rails, when used with certain versions before 3.2.10, makes potentially unsafe find_by_id method calls, which might allow remote attackers to conduct CVE-2012-6496 SQL injection attacks via a crafted parameter in environments that have a known secret_token value, as demonstrated by a value contained in secret_token.rb in an open-source product.
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