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Fencer Intel
high 7.5

CVE-2014-3514 json

Active Record subject to strong parameters protection bypass

published 2014-08-20 12 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-9rf5-jm6f-2fmm , EUVD-2017-0209

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.8%
EPSS 2.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 86%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

activerecord/lib/active_record/relation/query_methods.rb in Active Record in Ruby on Rails 4.0.x before 4.0.9 and 4.1.x before 4.1.5 allows remote attackers to bypass the strong parameters protection mechanism via crafted input to an application that makes create_with calls.

Patch / fix

  • rubygems activerecord 4.0.9, 4.1.5
  • rails Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2:4.1.5-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3514

  • ror40-rubygem-activerecord RHEL 1 SOFTWARE_COLLECTIONS 1:4.0.2-2.3.el6
  • ror40-rubygem-activerecord RHEL 1 SOFTWARE_COLLECTIONS 1:4.0.2-2.3.el7

red hat advisories RHSA-2014:1102

  • rubygem-railties-4_2 openSUSE Tumbleweed 5.0.0.1-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10207-1

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-2014-3514 updated cvss 5.8

rubygem-activerecord: Strong Parameter bypass with create_with

  • Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) ror40-rubygem-activerecord 4.0.2-2.3.el6 Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) ror40-rubygem-activerecord 4.0.2-2.3.el7 Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.4) ror40-rubygem-activerecord 4.0.2-2.3.el6 Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) ror40-rubygem-activerecord 4.0.2-2.3.el6 Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) ror40-rubygem-activerecord 4.0.2-2.3.el7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2014:1102
  • Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 5 cfme-gemset, ruby193-rubygem-activerecord Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 1 ruby193-rubygem-activerecord Red Hat OpenStack Foreman ruby193-rubygem-activerecord Red Hat OpenStack Platform 4 ruby193-rubygem-activerecord Red Hat Software Collections ruby193-rubygem-activerecord Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager rubygem-activerecord, 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

2.80% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 86% 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, <4.0.9
>=4.1.0, <4.1.5
4.0.9
4.1.5

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
  • CWE-284 Improper Access Control
Technology feeds

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.