Security advisory

{
  "id": "c67ba08ed850fa20b9fc723da95d8dee2397ce67474fe141590baafa7158d759",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-0753",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2016-0753",
    "summary": "Active Model in Ruby on Rails 4.1.x before 4.1.14.1, 4.2.x before 4.2.5.1, and 5.x before 5.0.0.beta1.1 supports the use of instance-level writers for class accessors, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended validation steps via crafted parameters.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2016-0753",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2016-0753",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2016-0753",
        "GHSA-543v-gj2c-r3ch"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/rails/rails",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "4e168015cef61207981d2427d4dbb6cf15f71182"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "31ab3aa0e881acfd1475abae602455905a4cadf1"
                },
                {
                  "introduced": "7847a19f476fb9bee287681586d872ea43785e53"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "bb382b7aee116446518ca4ed1c6472d6b58f42b5"
                },
                {
                  "introduced": "099ddfdefd44fda11d0f6a72f934f8a0ee83141b"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "099ddfdefd44fda11d0f6a72f934f8a0ee83141b"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "4.1.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "4.1.14.1"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "4.2.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "4.2.5.1"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:5.0.0:beta1:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "5.0.0-beta1"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "5.0.0-beta1"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "5.0.0-beta1",
            "v5.0.0.beta1"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-0753.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:53.292479539Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=ruby-security-ann/6jQVC1geukQ/3Iy0GU1ZEgAJ"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
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          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "8.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "8.0"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:22:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
              "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:23:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "fedoraproject:fedora",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "22"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "22"
                  },
                  {
                    "introduced": "23"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "23"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "opensuse:leap",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "42.1"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "42.1"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2016-0753",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 437890,
  "published_at": "2016-02-16T02:59:07.69+00:00"
}