CVE-2015-4412 (GCVE-0-2015-4412)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-02-05 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 06:11
VLAI
EPSS
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Summary
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.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
6 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75045 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| https://github.com/mongodb/bson-ruby/commit/976da… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/mongodb/bson-ruby/compare/7446… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://sakurity.com/blog/2015/06/04/mongo_ruby_r… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1229750 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/06/3 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
Date Public
2015-06-04 00:00
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