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CVE-2014-0080

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-0080 describes a SQL injection vulnerability in Active Record within Ruby on Rails versions 4.0.x before 4.0.3 and 4.1.0.beta1, specifically when using PostgreSQL. This flaw allows remote attackers to execute "add data" SQL commands by manipulating array column operations with unhandled backslash characters. With a CVSS score of 6.8, it is considered a medium severity issue, requiring moderate attack complexity to achieve partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are public exploit codes like Metasploit or ExploitDB available, though it has received some community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:4.0.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:4.0.0:beta:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:4.0.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:4.0.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:4.0.1:-:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.8MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.30%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
67.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0130 is in the 37th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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 (2)

rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: activerecordFixed in: 4.0.3
rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: activerecordFixed in: 4.1.0.beta2

Vendor Advisories (2)

rubygemsGHSA-hqf9-rc9j-5fmjmedium

Array data injection vulnerability in activerecord

Oct 24, 2017
redhatCVE-2014-0080Moderate

rubygem-activerecord: PostgreSQL array data injection vulnerability

Feb 18, 2014

References

openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/02/18/9
groups.google.com / forum/message/raw