CVE-2016-3693 (GCVE-0-2016-3693)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-05-20 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 00:03
VLAI
Summary
The Safemode gem before 1.2.4 for Ruby, when initialized with a delegate object that is a Rails controller, allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information via the inspect method.
CWE
  • n/a
Date Public
2016-04-14 00:00
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