CVE-2017-17916

HighCVSS 8.1/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

SQL injection vulnerability in the 'find_by' method in Ruby on Rails 5.1.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the 'name' parameter. NOTE: The vendor disputes this issue because the documentation states that this method is not intended for use with untrusted input

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 8.1/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-89

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://kay-malwarebenchmark.github.io/blog/ruby-on-rails-arbitrary-sql-injection/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
https://kay-malwarebenchmark.github.io/blog/ruby-on-rails-arbitrary-sql-injection/Exploit, Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Dec 29, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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