High 8.8Published Feb 9, 2023

CVE-2023-22794A vulnerability in ActiveRecord <6.0.6.1, v6.1.7.1 and v7.0.4.1 related to the sanitization of comments.

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 27, 2026, 2:50 PM ET)

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A vulnerability in ActiveRecord <6.0.6.1, v6.1.7.1 and v7.0.4.1 related to the sanitization of comments. If malicious user input is passed to either the `annotate` query method, the `optimizer_hints` query method, or through the QueryLogs interface which automatically adds annotations, it may be sent to the database withinsufficient sanitization and be able to inject SQL outside of the comment.

CVSS: 8.8 HIGH (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE): CWE-89
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Not given
NVD analysis: Modified
Record last updated: Oct 23, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 23, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

activerecord_project activerecord activerecord_project:activerecord	from 6.0.0 before 6.0.6.1; from 6.1.0 before 6.1.7.1; from 7.0.0 before 7.0.4.1	NVD

References

References

https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/cve-2023-22794-sql-injection-vulnerability-via-activerecord-comments/82117	exploit, patch, vendor-advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240202-0008/
https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5372

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