CVE-2012-2055 Information

Description

GitHub Enterprise before 20120304 does not properly restrict the use of a hash to provide values for a model’s attributes which allows remote attackers to set the public_key[user_id] value via a modified URL for the public-key update form related to a \mass assignment\ vulnerability.

Reference

http://homakov.blogspot.com/2012/03/how-to.html http://lwn.net/Articles/488702/ https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74812 https://github.com/blog/1068-public-key-security-vulnerability-and-mitigation