CVE-2012-2660

25

FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-2660 is a vulnerability in Ruby on Rails versions before 3.0.13, 3.1.5, and 3.2.4, where differing parameter handling between Active Record and Rack allows remote attackers to bypass database query restrictions and perform NULL checks using crafted requests. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.4) has a low attack complexity and can lead to partial confidentiality and integrity impacts. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or public exploit code, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness within the cybersecurity community.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		3.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.0.0:::::::*
		3.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.0.0:beta::::::
		3.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.0.0:beta2::::::
		3.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.0.0:beta3::::::
		3.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.0.0:beta4::::::

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.4MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

NONE

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

4.9

CvssVersion

2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

4.60%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

90.7%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-27

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0460 is in the 87th percentile among its peer group of 23,723 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (54)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: rubygem-ruby_parser-0:2.0.4-6.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: rubygem-openshift-origin-auth-remote-user-0:1.0.5-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: rubygem-openshift-origin-console-0:1.0.10-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: rubygem-openshift-origin-controller-0:1.0.12-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: rubygem-openshift-origin-node-0:1.0.11-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: converge-ui-devel-0:1.0.4-1.el6cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: puppet-0:2.6.17-2.el6cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: rubygem-actionpack-1:3.0.10-10.el6cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: rubygem-activerecord-1:3.0.10-6.el6cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: rubygem-activesupport-1:3.0.10-4.el6cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: rubygem-chunky_png-0:1.2.0-3.el6cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: rubygem-compass-0:0.11.5-2.el6cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: rubygem-compass-960-plugin-0:0.10.4-2.el6cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: rubygem-delayed_job-0:2.1.4-2.el6cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: rubygem-ldap_fluff-0:0.1.3-1.el6_3

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: rubygem-mail-0:2.3.0-3.el6cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: rubygem-net-ldap-0:0.1.1-3.el6cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.1Fixed in: rubygem-actionpack-1:3.0.10-11.el6cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.1Fixed in: rubygem-activerecord-1:3.0.10-8.el6cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.1Fixed in: rubygem-activesupport-1:3.0.10-5.el6cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: graphviz-0:2.26.0-10.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-console-0:0.0.16-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-broker-0:1.0.11-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-broker-util-0:1.0.15-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-cron-1.4-0:1.0.3-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-diy-0.1-0:1.0.3-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-haproxy-1.4-0:1.0.4-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-jbosseap-6.0-0:1.0.4-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-jbossews-1.0-0:1.0.13-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-jenkins-1.4-0:1.0.2-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-jenkins-client-1.4-0:1.0.2-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-mysql-5.1-0:1.0.5-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-perl-5.10-0:1.0.3-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-php-5.3-0:1.0.5-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-postgresql-8.4-0:1.0.3-2.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-ruby-1.8-0:1.0.7-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-ruby-1.9-scl-0:1.0.8-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-msg-node-mcollective-0:1.0.3-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: php-0:5.3.3-22.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: ruby193-ruby-0:1.9.3.327-25.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: ruby193-rubygem-actionpack-1:3.2.8-3.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: ruby193-rubygem-activemodel-0:3.2.8-2.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: ruby193-rubygem-activerecord-1:3.2.8-3.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: ruby193-rubygem-railties-0:3.2.8-2.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: ruby193-rubygem-ruby_parser-0:2.3.1-3.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: rubygem-actionpack-1:3.0.13-4.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: rubygem-activemodel-0:3.0.13-3.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: rubygem-activerecord-1:3.0.13-5.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: rubygem-bson-0:1.8.1-2.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: rubygem-mongo-0:1.8.1-2.el6op

rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa

Product: actionpackFixed in: 3.2.4

rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa

Product: actionpackFixed in: 3.0.13

rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa

Product: actionpackFixed in: 2.3.16

rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa

Product: actionpackFixed in: 3.1.5

Vendor Advisories (2)

rubygemsGHSA-hgpp-pp89-4fgfmedium

Action Pack contains database-query restrictions bypass

redhatCVE-2012-2660Low

rubygem-actionpack: Unsafe query generation

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00002.html

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00014.html

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00016.html

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00017.html

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2012-08/msg00046.html

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-0154.html

groups.google.com / group/rubyonrails-security/msg/d890f8d58b5fbf32

Exploit