Do you use Ruby on Rails? If so, it’s time to update. Now.

Ruby on Rails is an open source Web application framework built to use with the Ruby programming language. Ruby on Rails—or just Rails—gives Web developers the ability to gather information from Web servers, or query a database. Rails is used across an estimated quarter of a million websites ranging from ecommerce to cloud storage.

Rails contains critical vulnerabilities that are being targeted by attackers. The mass assignments vulnerability is the Rails equivalent of SQL injection, and exposes Rails to exploits.

Lamar Bailey, director of security research and development for nCircle, explained, “All unpatched versions of Ruby on Rails contain critical vulnerabilities involving parameter parsing and attackers can use these bugs to execute code or launch SQL injection attacks.”

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