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CVE-2016-0753
Active Model in Ruby on Rails 4.1.x before 4.1.14.1, 4.2.x before 4.2.5.1, and 5.x before 5.0.0.beta1.1 supports the use of instance-level…
Medium5.3EPSS 7.2%
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- redhat
Description
Active Model in Ruby on Rails 4.1.x before 4.1.14.1, 4.2.x before 4.2.5.1, and 5.x before 5.0.0.beta1.1 supports the use of instance-level writers for class accessors, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended validation steps via crafted parameters.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Published
- 8 years later
· 8 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 7.2% · top 5.7% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.3.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- RubyGemsactivemodelGHSA-543v-gj2c-r3ch (opens in a new tab)
References (13)
- [oss-security] 20160125 [CVE-2016-0753] Possible Input Validation Circumvention in Active Model (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [ruby-security-ann] 20160125 [CVE-2016-0753] Possible Input Validation Circumvention in Active Model (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2016:0372 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- FEDORA-2016-94e71ee673 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2016-73fe05d878 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2016-cc465a34df (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2016:1146 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 1034816 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- DSA-3464 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:0296 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- FEDORA-2016-eb4d6e8aab (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2016-cb30088b06 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 82247 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-543v-gj2c-r3ch (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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