CVE-2022-32224: Activerecord Project Activerecord

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A possible escalation to RCE vulnerability exists when using YAML serialized columns in Active Record < 7.0.3.1, <6.1.6.1, <6.0.5.1 and <5.2.8.1 which could allow an attacker, that can manipulate data in the database (via means like SQL injection), the ability to escalate to an RCE.

Affected products

• Activerecord Project Activerecord: before 5.2.8.1 (fixed in 5.2.8.1); from 6.0.0, before 6.0.5.1 (fixed in 6.0.5.1); from 6.1.0, before 6.1.6.1 (fixed in 6.1.6.1); from 7.0.0, before 7.0.3.1 (fixed in 7.0.3.1)

Published 2022-12-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.