Ruby On Rails SQL Injection Flaw Has Serious Real-Life Consequences

vikingpower writes "As a previous Slashdot story already reported, Ruby on Rails was recently reported to suffer from a major SQL injection flaw. This has prompted the Dutch government to take the one and only national site for citizens' digital identification offline (link in Dutch, Google translation to English). Here is the English-language placeholder page for the now-offline site. This means that 16 million Dutch citizens cannot authenticate themselves anymore with government instances, and that those same government instances can not communicate anything to those same citizens anymore." Fixes were released, so it looks like it's on their sysadmin team now.

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This is a different vulnerability

[bimozx]

This is a different security vulnerability that was brought to light a few days ago, which was given the full detail in this article. Finder method SQL Injection vulnerability Any Rails version that was build for the last 6 years is affected by this. This is a serious security flaw, it is sternly advised that you update your application immediately if your Rails version is in the bucket. You can refer to this discussion for more details.

Re:I've been saying it for years.

[dam.capsule.org]

It's a bit more complicated than a simple sql injection: see http://blog.phusion.nl/2013/01/03/rails-sql-injection-vulnerability-hold-your-horses-here-are-the-facts/