Free and open-source vulnerability scanner
Mageni eases for you the vulnerability scanning, assessment, and management process. It is free and open-source.
Install NowAvailable for macOS, Windows, and Linux
CVE-2012-4464
CVE information
Published
Last Modified
CVSSv2.0 Severity
Impact Analysis
Description
Ruby 1.9.3 before patchlevel 286 and 2.0 before revision r37068 allows context-dependent attackers to bypass safe-level restrictions and modify untainted strings via the (1) exc_to_s or (2) name_err_to_s API function, which marks the string as tainted, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-4466. NOTE: this issue might exist because of a CVE-2011-1005 regression..
CVSSv2.0 Score
- Severity
- Medium
- Base Score
- 5/10
- Exploit Score
- 10/10
- Access Vector
- Network
- Access Complexity
- Low
- Authentication Required
- None
- Impact Score
- 2.9/10
- Confidentiality Impact
- None
- Availability Impact
- None
- Integrity Impact
- Partial
Products Affected
CPE | Affected | Vulnerable | Excluding | Edit |
---|---|---|---|---|
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.0.0:preview1:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.0.0:p0:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9.3:p125:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.0.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.0.0:preview2:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9.3:p194:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.0.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9.3:p0:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - |
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/02/4
- http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=revision&revision=37068
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=862598
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/03/9
- http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2012/10/12/cve-2012-4464-cve-2012-4466/
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/089554.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/089887.html