CVE-2006-4111
EPSS 4.0%Ruby on Rails vulnerable to code injection
Published: 10/24/2017Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
Ruby on Rails before 1.1.5 allows remote attackers to execute Ruby code with "severe" or "serious" impact via a File Upload request with an HTTP header that modifies the LOAD_PATH variable, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-4112.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/railsfrom 0, < 1.1.5-1
- RubyGems/rails>= 1.1.0, < 1.1.6
References (11)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-4111
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2006-4111
- PATCHhttps://github.com/rails/rails
- WEBhttp://blog.koehntopp.de/archives/1367-Ruby-On-Rails-Mandatory-Mystery-Patch.html
- WEBhttps://github.com/presidentbeef/rails-security-history/blob/master/vulnerabilities.md
- WEBhttps://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rails/CVE-2006-4111.yml
- WEBhttps://web.archive.org/web/20200301174340/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19454
- WEBhttps://web.archive.org/web/20200808083046/http://securitytracker.com/id?1016673
- WEBhttp://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2006/8/9/rails-1-1-5-mandatory-security-patch-and-other-tidbits
- WEBhttp://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200608-20.xml
- WEBhttp://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_21_sr.html