CVE-2012-4481 (GCVE-0-2012-4481)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-05-02 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 20:35
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Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
redhat CNA under the redhat root
CNA scorecard B 82/100 over 1047 records in the last 180 days details
References
Date Public
2012-10-05 00:00
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