VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2012-4481
CVSS score4.3 MEDIUM
EPSS probability1.94%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2013-05-02
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Description
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.
Primary references
- secalert@redhat.com
- secalert@redhat.com
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