Get a demo
100% Signal 0% Noise Invicti Logo - The Largest Dynamic Application Security Solutions Provider In The World Get a demo
Ruby Permissions Privileges and Access Controls Vulnerability - CVE-2012-4466 - Vulnerability Database
Ruby

Ruby Permissions Privileges and Access Controls Vulnerability - CVE-2012-4466

Medium
Reference: CVE-2012-4466
NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4466
Title: Ruby Permissions Privileges and Access Controls Vulnerability
Overview:

Ruby 1.8.7 before patchlevel 371 1.9.3 before patchlevel 286 and 2.0 before revision r37068 allows context-dependent attackers to bypass safe-level restrictions and modify untainted strings via the name_err_mesg_to_str API function which marks the string as tainted a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-1005.