Vulnerability in Ruby-Lang Ruby
CVE-2012-4466
Ruby 1.8.7 before patchlevel 371, 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 name_err_mesg_to_str API function, which marks the string as tainted, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-1005.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.026 (84.9th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 85th percentile — 84.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.026 · newest: 0.026 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Ruby-Lang Ruby — versions 1.8.7, 1.9.3, 2.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/02/4 (mailing-list)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/03/9 (mailing-list)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/089554.html (vendor-advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/089887.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2012/10/12/cve-2012-4464-cve-2012-4466/ (Vendor Advisory)
- svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi
- wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-0294