CVE-2011-2930: activerecord vulnerable to SQL Injection

October 24, 2017 (updated November 3, 2025)

Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in the quote_table_name method in the ActiveRecord adapters in activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/ in Ruby on Rails before 2.3.13, 3.0.x before 3.0.10, and 3.1.x before 3.1.0.rc5 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via a crafted column name.

References

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=731438
github.com/advisories/GHSA-h6w6-xmqv-7q78
github.com/rails/rails
github.com/rails/rails/commit/8a39f411dc3c806422785b1f4d5c7c9d58e4bf85
github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/activerecord/CVE-2011-2930.yml
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-2930

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