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CVE-2012-4481
CVE information
Published
Last Modified
CVSSv2.0 Severity
Impact Analysis
Description
The safe-level feature in Ruby 1.8.7 allows context-dependent attackers to modify strings via the NameError#to_s method when operating on Ruby objects. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2011-1005..
CVSSv2.0 Score
- Severity
- Medium
- Base Score
- 4.3/10
- Exploit Score
- 8.6/10
- Access Vector
- Network
- Access Complexity
- Medium
- 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:1.8.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - |
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=863484
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/05/4
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0129.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0612.html
- https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-0294
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:124