The Ruby on Rails vulnerability that made Metasploit release a patch
Summary: A January 8 post to the Ruby on Rails Security group described how crafted user-provided YAML and Symbol data could inject arbitrary SQL, inject and execute arbitrary code, and cause denial of service in Rails applications, assigned CVE-2013-0156. Metasploit published a security update for itself (2013010202) within hours and rushed an exploitation module overnight, while Cisco's VRT wrote detection SIDs 25287 and 25288 for the next SEU.
What you should know: The vulnerability landed in Rails itself, so every project built on the framework inherited it - including Metasploit, which had to patch its own tooling within hours of disclosure. The window between a Google Groups post and working exploits was measured in hours, not weeks.
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- Vulnerabilities & Patching
- Mentions
- CVE-2013-0156
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