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[Security] Bump activerecord from 6.1.2 to 6.1.2.1

Merged Administrator requested to merge dependabot/bundler/activerecord-6.1.2.1 into master

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Bumps activerecord from 6.1.2 to 6.1.2.1. This update includes a security fix.

Vulnerabilities fixed

Sourced from The Ruby Advisory Database.

Possible DoS Vulnerability in Active Record PostgreSQL adapter There is a possible DoS vulnerability in the PostgreSQL adapter in Active Record. This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2021-22880.

Versions Affected: >= 4.2.0 Not affected: < 4.2.0 Fixed Versions: 6.1.2.1, 6.0.3.5, 5.2.4.5

Impact

Carefully crafted input can cause the input validation in the "money" type of the PostgreSQL adapter in Active Record to spend too much time in a regular expression, resulting in the potential for a DoS attack.

This only impacts Rails applications that are using PostgreSQL along with money type columns that take user input.

Workarounds

In the case a patch can't be applied, the following monkey patch can be used in an initializer:

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Patched versions: ~> 5.2.4.5; ~> 6.0.3.5; >= 6.1.2.1 Unaffected versions: < 4.2.0

Release notes

Sourced from activerecord's releases.

6.1.2.1

Active Support

  • No changes.

Active Model

  • No changes.

Active Record

  • Fix possible DoS vector in PostgreSQL money type

    Carefully crafted input can cause a DoS via the regular expressions used for validating the money format in the PostgreSQL adapter. This patch fixes the regexp.

    Thanks to @dee-see from Hackerone for this patch!

    [CVE-2021-22880]

    Aaron Patterson

Action View

  • No changes.

Action Pack

  • Prevent open redirect when allowed host starts with a dot

    [CVE-2021-22881]

    Thanks to @tktech (https://hackerone.com/tktech) for reporting this issue and the patch!

    Aaron Patterson

Active Job

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Changelog

Sourced from activerecord's changelog.

Rails 6.1.2.1 (February 10, 2021)

  • Fix possible DoS vector in PostgreSQL money type

    Carefully crafted input can cause a DoS via the regular expressions used for validating the money format in the PostgreSQL adapter. This patch fixes the regexp.

    Thanks to @dee-see from Hackerone for this patch!

    [CVE-2021-22880]

    Aaron Patterson

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