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Fencer Intel
medium 6.8

CVE-2014-0080 json

Array data injection vulnerability in activerecord

published 2014-02-20 12 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-hqf9-rc9j-5fmj , EUVD-2017-0254

cvss
6.8
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.3%
EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 69%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

SQL injection vulnerability in activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql/cast.rb in Active Record in Ruby on Rails 4.0.x before 4.0.3, and 4.1.0.beta1, when PostgreSQL is used, allows remote attackers to execute "add data" SQL commands via vectors involving \ (backslash) characters that are not properly handled in operations on array columns.

Patch / fix

  • rubygems activerecord 4.0.3, 4.1.0.beta2

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2014-0080 updated cvss 4.3

rubygem-activerecord: PostgreSQL array data injection vulnerability

  • Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 5 ruby193-rubygem-activerecord Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 1 ruby193-rubygem-activerecord Red Hat OpenStack Platform 3 ruby193-rubygem-activerecord Red Hat OpenStack Platform 4 ruby193-rubygem-activerecord Red Hat Satellite 6 ruby193-rubygem-activerecord Red Hat Software Collections ror40-rubygem-activerecord, ruby193-rubygem-activerecord
    +1 more products
    Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager ruby193-rubygem-activerecord
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 69% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
rubygems activerecord
>=4.0.0, <4.0.3
>=4.1.0.beta1, <4.1.0.beta2
4.0.3
4.1.0.beta2

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-89 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command
Technology feeds

References

Sources

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