Red Hat Security Advisory: rubygem-activesupport security update Security Advisory secalert@redhat.com Red Hat Security Response Team RHSA-2013:0201 Final 1 1 2013-01-28T23:05:00Z Current version 2013-01-28T23:05:00Z 2013-01-28T23:05:00Z Red Hat rhsa-to-cvrf 1.0.1484 2013-01-28T23:15:02Z An updated rubygem-activesupport package that fixes one security issue is now available for Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having critical security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section. Ruby on Rails is a model–view–controller (MVC) framework for web application development. Active Support provides support and utility classes used by the Ruby on Rails framework. A flaw was found in the way Active Support performed the parsing of JSON requests by translating them to YAML. A remote attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of a Ruby on Rails application, perform SQL injection attacks, or bypass the authentication using a specially-created JSON request. (CVE-2013-0333) Red Hat would like to thank Ruby on Rails upstream for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Lawrence Pit of Mirror42 as the original reporter. Users of Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which resolves this issue. Katello must be restarted ("service katello restart") for this update to take effect. Please see https://www.redhat.com/footer/terms-of-use.html Copyright © 2013 Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved. Critical https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0201.html https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0201.html https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager for RHEL 6 Server rubygem-activesupport-3.0.10-7.el6cf.src.rpm rubygem-activesupport-3.0.10-7.el6cf as a component of Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager for RHEL 6 Server A flaw was found in the way Active Support performed the parsing of JSON requests by translating them to YAML. A remote attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of a Ruby on Rails application, perform SQL injection attacks, or bypass the authentication using a specially-created JSON request. 2013-01-23T00:00:00Z 2013-01-28T00:00:00Z CVE-2013-0333 6Server-SubscriptionAssetManager11:rubygem-activesupport-3.0.10-7.el6cf Critical 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied. This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0201.html http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2013/1/28/Rails-3-0-20-and-2-3-16-have-been-released/ http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2013/1/28/Rails-3-0-20-and-2-3-16-have-been-released/ https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2013-0333.html CVE-2013-0333 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=903440 bz#903440: CVE-2013-0333 rubygem-activesupport: json to yaml parsing Red Hat would like to thank Ruby on Rails upstream for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Lawrence Pit of Mirror42 as the original reporter.