CVE-2015-4412

Public Exploit

Description

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.

Category

9.8
CVSS
Severity: Critical
CVSS 3.0 •
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 1.84% Top 20%
Third-Party Advisory securityfocus.com Third-Party Advisory redhat.com Third-Party Advisory github.com Third-Party Advisory github.com Third-Party Advisory sakurity.com
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75045 vdb entry third party advisory
https://github.com/mongodb/bson-ruby/commit/976da329ff03ecdfca3030eb6efe3c85e6db9999 third party advisory
https://github.com/mongodb/bson-ruby/compare/7446d7c6764dfda8dc4480ce16d5c023e74be5ca...28f34978a85b689a4480b4d343389bf4886522e7 issue tracking third party advisory patch
https://sakurity.com/blog/2015/06/04/mongo_ruby_regexp.html exploit third party advisory patch
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1229750 issue tracking third party advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/06/3 mailing list

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2015-4412?
CVE-2015-4412 has been scored as a critical severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2015-4412?
To fix CVE-2015-4412, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2015-4412 being actively exploited in the wild?
It is possible that CVE-2015-4412 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~2% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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