CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
AI Score
Confidence
Low
EPSS
Percentile
87.5%
Ruby on Rails is prone to file injection vulnerability.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:rubyonrails:rails";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.801765");
script_version("2023-07-28T05:05:23+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-07-28 05:05:23 +0000 (Fri, 28 Jul 2023)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2011-03-22 08:43:18 +0100 (Tue, 22 Mar 2011)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2011-3187");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"4.3");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N");
script_name("Ruby on Rails Logfile Injection Vulnerability");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2011 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Web application abuses");
script_dependencies("gb_rails_consolidation.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("rails/detected");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://gist.github.com/868268");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46423");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Mar/162");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://webservsec.blogspot.com/2011/02/ruby-on-rails-vulnerability.html");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation will allow attackers to inject arbitrary
data into the affected HTTP header field, attackers may be able to launch cross-site request-forgery,
cross-site scripting, HTML-injection, and other attacks.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Ruby on Rails version 3.0.5.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The flaw is due to input validation error for the
'X-Forwarded-For' field in the header.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"No known solution was made available for at least one year since the disclosure
of this vulnerability. Likely none will be provided anymore. General solution options are to upgrade to a newer
release, disable respective features, remove the product or replace the product by another one.");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Ruby on Rails is prone to file injection vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner_unreliable");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"WillNotFix");
exit(0);
}
include("version_func.inc");
include("host_details.inc");
if( isnull( port = get_app_port( cpe:CPE ) ) )
exit( 0 );
if( ! infos = get_app_version_and_location( cpe:CPE, port:port, exit_no_version:TRUE ) )
exit( 0 );
version = infos["version"];
location = infos["location"];
if( version_is_equal( version:version, test_version:"3.0.5" ) ) {
report = report_fixed_ver( installed_version:version, fixed_version:"Will Not Fix", install_path:location );
security_message( port:port, data:report );
exit( 0 );
}
exit( 99 );