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CVE-2012-4466

Date: April 25, 2013

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.

Severity Score

Related Resources (12)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/03/9
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-0294
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:124
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=862614
http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=revision&revision=37068
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4466
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/02/4
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/089554.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/089887.html
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2012/10/12/cve-2012-4464-cve-2012-4466/
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2012-4466
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2012-4466

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control

CWE-264

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): LOW
Availability (A): NONE

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): PARTIAL
Availability (A): NONE
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