Resource exhaustion in Bson Project
CVE-2015-4412
BSON injection vulnerability in the legal? function in BSON (bson-ruby) gem before 3.0.4 for Ruby allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) or inject arbitrary data via a crafted string.
Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.047 (91.4th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 91st percentile — 91.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.047 · newest: 0.047 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Bson Project — versions 3.0.3
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/75045 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- github.com/mongodb/bson-ruby/commit/976da329ff03ecdfca3030eb6efe3c85e6db9999 (Third Party Advisory)
- github.com/mongodb/bson-ruby/compare/7446d7c6764dfda8dc4480ce16d5c023e74be5ca… (Patch, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
- sakurity.com/blog/2015/06/04/mongo_ruby_regexp.html (Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/06/3 (mailing-list, Mailing List)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2015-4412?
- CVE-2015-4412 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Bson Project, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2018-02-05.
- How severe is CVE-2015-4412?
- Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2015-4412 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.