CVE-2012-4464

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

First reported 11 years ago

2013-04-25 23:55:00

Last updated 11 years ago

2013-08-27 03:27:00

Affected Software

ruby-lang Ruby 1.9.3

1.9.3

ruby-lang Ruby 1.9.3-p0

1.9.3

ruby-lang Ruby 1.9.3-p125

1.9.3

ruby-lang Ruby 1.9.3-p194

1.9.3

Ruby-lang Ruby 2.0

2.0

Ruby-lang Ruby 2.0.0

2.0.0

Ruby-lang Ruby 2.0.0-p0

2.0.0

Ruby-lang Ruby 2.0.0-preview1

2.0.0

Ruby-lang Ruby 2.0.0-preview2

2.0.0

Ruby-lang Ruby 2.0.0 rc1

2.0.0

Ruby-lang Ruby 2.0.0 rc2

2.0.0

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