Ruby on Rails Security Restriction Bypass and SQL Injection Vulnerability

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Affected Systems:
Ruby on Rails 3.x
Unaffected system:
Ruby on Rails 3.0.4
Description:
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Bugtraq id: 46292
Cve id: CVE-2011-0448, CVE-2011-0449

Ruby on Rails (RoR or Rails) is an open-source Web application framework written in Ruby. It is developed in strict accordance with the MVC structure.

Ruby on Rails has security restriction bypass and SQL Injection Vulnerabilities. Attackers can exploit this vulnerability to bypass certain security restrictions and perform unauthorized operations, and use the SQL injection vulnerability to modify SQL requests, completely control affected software, retrieve information or modify data.

<* Source: Eaden McKee
Supersaas
Jan M. Faber
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Suggestion:
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Vendor patch:

Ruby on Rails
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The vendor has released a patch to fix this security problem. Please download it from the vendor's homepage:

Http://www.rubyonrails.com/