CVE-2012-4481

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 2
Modified
Published: 02 May 2013, 14:00
Last modified:06 Aug 2024, 20:35

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
low
17/100
CVSS Score
4.3 MEDIUM
v2.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.49% LOW
0% probability -0.10%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

02 May 2013, 14:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
06 Aug 2024, 20:35
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 4.3AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.49%• Percentile: 66%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-264•Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

    Weaknesses in this category are related to the management of permissions, privileges, and other security features that are used to perform access control.

Affected Systems

  • ruby-lang•ruby

    1.8.7

References (6)