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Vulnerability details: VCID-dbvw-1xvz-63b8
Vulnerability ID VCID-dbvw-1xvz-63b8
Aliases CVE-2012-2695
GHSA-76wq-xw4h-f8wj
Summary activerecord vulnerable to SQL Injection The Active Record component in Ruby on Rails efore 2.3.15, 3.0.x before 3.0.14, 3.1.x before 3.1.6, and 3.2.x before 3.2.6 does not properly implement the passing of request data to a where method in an ActiveRecord class, which allows remote attackers to conduct certain SQL injection attacks via nested query parameters that leverage improper handling of nested hashes, a related issue to CVE-2012-2661.
Status Published
Exploitability None
Weighted Severity None
Risk None
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (3)
CWE-89 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
System Score Found at
generic_textual HIGH http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00002.html
generic_textual HIGH http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00014.html
generic_textual HIGH http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00016.html
generic_textual HIGH http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-08/msg00046.html
generic_textual HIGH http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0154.html
epss 0.00637 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2012-2695
cvssv3.1_qr HIGH https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-76wq-xw4h-f8wj
generic_textual HIGH https://github.com/rails/rails
generic_textual HIGH https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/62f81f4d6b3ee40e9887ffd92ab14714bad93f18
generic_textual HIGH https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/activerecord/CVE-2012-2695.yml
generic_textual HIGH https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/aee3413fb038bf56?dmode=source&output=gplain
generic_textual HIGH https://groups.google.com/g/rubyonrails-security/c/l4L0TEVAz1k/m/Vr84sD9B464J
generic_textual HIGH https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-2695
Reference id Reference type URL
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00002.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00014.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00016.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-08/msg00046.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0154.html
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2012-2695.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2012-2695
https://github.com/rails/rails
https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/62f81f4d6b3ee40e9887ffd92ab14714bad93f18
https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/activerecord/CVE-2012-2695.yml
https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/aee3413fb038bf56?dmode=source&output=gplain
https://groups.google.com/g/rubyonrails-security/c/l4L0TEVAz1k/m/Vr84sD9B464J
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-2695
831573 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=831573
GHSA-76wq-xw4h-f8wj https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-76wq-xw4h-f8wj
RHSA-2012:1542 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012:1542
RHSA-2013:0154 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:0154
No exploits are available.
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.70807
EPSS Score 0.00637
Published At May 29, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-05-29T08:57:12.638718+00:00 GithubOSV Importer Import https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2017/10/GHSA-76wq-xw4h-f8wj/GHSA-76wq-xw4h-f8wj.json 38.6.0