Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2012-4481 First vendor Publication 2013-05-02
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2023-11-07

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 4.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-4481

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17844
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17844
Title: USN-1603-2 -- ruby1.8 vulnerabilities
Description: Ruby could allow excessive access in untrusted programs.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-1603-2
CVE-2012-4466
CVE-2012-4481
 Version: 7
Platform(s): Ubuntu 12.10
 Product(s): ruby1.8
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17988
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17988
Title: USN-1603-1 -- ruby1.8 vulnerabilities
Description: Ruby could allow excessive access in untrusted programs.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-1603-1
CVE-2012-4466
CVE-2012-4481
 Version: 7
Platform(s): Ubuntu 12.04
Ubuntu 11.10
Ubuntu 11.04
Ubuntu 10.04
 Product(s): ruby1.8
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2012-10-31 Name : Ubuntu Update for ruby1.8 USN-1603-2
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_1603_2.nasl
2012-10-11 Name : Ubuntu Update for ruby1.8 USN-1603-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_1603_1.nasl

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2015-01-19 Name : The remote Solaris system is missing a security patch for third-party software.
File : solaris11_ruby_20130924.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-12-15 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201412-27.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-09-04 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2013-173.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-07-12 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2013-0129.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-07-12 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2013-0612.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-04-20 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2013-124.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-03-10 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2013-0612.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-03-08 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2013-0612.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-03-08 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20130307_ruby_on_SL6_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-01-17 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2013-0129.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-01-17 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20130108_ruby_on_SL5_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-01-08 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2013-0129.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-10-23 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-1603-2.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-10-11 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-1603-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
CONFIRM https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=863484
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-0294
MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:124
MLIST http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/05/4
REDHAT http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0129.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0612.html

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