Active Record contains deserialization of arbitrary YAML (GHSA-fhj9-cjjh-27vm)
Published: 2017-10-24T18:33:37Z
Aliases: CVE-2013-0277
Severity: CRITICAL · CWE: CWE-502

ActiveRecord in Ruby on Rails before 2.3.17 and 3.x before 3.1.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code via crafted serialized attributes that cause the +serialize+ helper to deserialize arbitrary YAML.

Affected packages:
package: ecosystem: RubyGems
name: activerecord
ranges: type: ECOSYSTEM
events: introduced: 0
fixed: 2.3.17
package: ecosystem: RubyGems
name: activerecord
ranges: type: ECOSYSTEM
events: introduced: 3.0.0
fixed: 3.1.0