Security advisory
A vulnerability in ActiveRecord <6.0.6.1, v6.1.7.1 and v7.0.4.1 related to the sanitization of comments. If malicious user input is passed to either the `annotate` query method, the `optimizer_hints` query method, or through the QueryLogs interface which automatically adds annotations, it may be sent to the database withinsufficient sanitization and be able to inject SQL outside of the comment.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-22794
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 4 Nov 2026, 15:03 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A vulnerability in ActiveRecord <6.0.6.1, v6.1.7.1 and v7.0.4.1 related to the sanitization of comments. If malicious user input is passed to either the `annotate` query method, the `optimizer_hints` query method, or through the QueryLogs interface which automatically adds annotations, it may be sent to the database withinsufficient sanitization and be able to inject SQL outside of the comment.
osv:CVE-2023-22794
Complete source record
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