CVE-2015-7577: Rubyonrails Rails

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 4.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

activerecord/lib/active_record/nested_attributes.rb in Active Record in Ruby on Rails 3.1.x and 3.2.x before 3.2.22.1, 4.0.x and 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 does not properly implement a certain destroy option, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended change restrictions by leveraging use of the nested attributes feature.

Affected products

• Rubyonrails Rails: version 4.0.0 only; version 4.0.1 only; version 4.0.2 only; version 4.0.3 only; version 4.0.4 only; version 4.0.5 only; …
• Rubyonrails Ruby On Rails: up to and including 3.2.22; version 4.0.10 only; version 4.0.11 only; version 4.0.11.1 only; version 4.0.12 only; version 4.0.13 only; …

Published 2016-02-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.