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Ruby on Rails Database Configuration File - Detect

ID: rails-database-config

Severity: high

Author: pdteam,geeknik

Tags: config,exposure,rails

Description

Section titled “Description”

Ruby on Rails database configuration file was detected, which may contain database credentials.

YAML Source

Section titled “YAML Source”
id: rails-database-config


info:
  name: Ruby on Rails Database Configuration File - Detect
  author: pdteam,geeknik
  severity: high
  description: Ruby on Rails database configuration file was detected, which may contain database credentials.
  reference: https://guides.rubyonrails.org/configuring.html#configuring-a-database
  classification:
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
    cvss-score: 7.5
    cwe-id: CWE-200
  metadata:
    max-request: 1
  tags: config,exposure,rails


http:
  - method: GET
    path:
      - "{{BaseURL}}/config/database.yml"


    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: word
        words:
          - "adapter:"
          - "database:"
          - "production:"
        condition: and
        part: body


      - type: status
        status:
          - 200
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Guide to check the vulnerabilities

Section titled “Guide to check the vulnerabilities”

This template is used to detect vulnerabilities in web applications. It can be used with the Nuclei tool to scan for specific patterns or behaviors.

Terminal window
$ nuclei -u "URL" -t "http/exposures/configs/rails-database-config.yaml"

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