CVE-2016-0753: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 7.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Active Model in Ruby on Rails 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 supports the use of instance-level writers for class accessors, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended validation steps via crafted parameters.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 22 only; version 23 only
• Opensuse Leap: version 42.1 only
• Rubyonrails Rails: from 4.1.0, before 4.1.14.1 (fixed in 4.1.14.1); from 4.2.0, before 4.2.5.1 (fixed in 4.2.5.1); version 5.0.0 only

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