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Fencer Intel
high 7.5

CVE-2014-3483 json

Active Record contains SQL Injection via improper range quoting

published 2014-07-07 12 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-r8fh-hq2p-7qhq , EUVD-2017-0298

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.2%
EPSS 4.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 90%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

SQL injection vulnerability in activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql/quoting.rb in the PostgreSQL adapter for Active Record in Ruby on Rails 4.x before 4.0.7 and 4.1.x before 4.1.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands by leveraging improper range quoting.

Patch / fix

  • rubygems activerecord 4.0.7, 4.1.3
  • rails Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2:4.1.4-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3483

  • ror40-rubygem-activerecord RHEL 1 SOFTWARE_COLLECTIONS 1:4.0.2-2.2.el6
  • ror40-rubygem-activerecord RHEL 1 SOFTWARE_COLLECTIONS 1:4.0.2-2.2.el7

red hat advisories RHSA-2014:0877

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-2014-3483 updated cvss 4.3

rubygem-activerecord: SQL injection vulnerability in 'range' quoting

  • Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) ror40-rubygem-activerecord 4.0.2-2.2.el6 Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) ror40-rubygem-activerecord 4.0.2-2.2.el7 Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.4) ror40-rubygem-activerecord 4.0.2-2.2.el6 Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) ror40-rubygem-activerecord 4.0.2-2.2.el6 Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) ror40-rubygem-activerecord 4.0.2-2.2.el7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2014:0877
  • 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 Software Collections ruby193-rubygem-activerecord 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

4.18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 90% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
rubygems activerecord
>=4.0.0, <4.0.7
>=4.1.0, <4.1.3
4.0.7
4.1.3

Classification

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

References

Sources

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