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I can confirm that @charliesome has found a loop-hole in Rails' parameters processing that makes it possible to do some really nasty stuff. I also know that other have discovered the same bug independently. I don't think anything has leaked to the public yet.

Based on Charlie's PoC I managed to sneak a SQL-injection into some really basic ActiveRecord queries. It's not entirely obvious how to accomplish this, but it wouldn't surprise me if other people who discovered the same bug will find similar exploits.

This has been reported to Rails' security team and I expect patches to be released pretty soon.

For now I don't have an easy-to-apply workaround that doesn't disclose the gist of the exploit.




I think we are talking about two different conditions. Wee!




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