CVE-2015-4412

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2015-06-04
Bugzilla:
1229750: CVE-2015-4412 rubygem-bson: data injection vulnerability through a crafted ObjectId

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2015-4412 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This issue affects the versions of rubygem-bson as shipped with Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2.x. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Low security impact on Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2. Additionally access to the component using rubygem-moped is restricted, only trusted users and systems can send messages, thus no trust boundary violation occurs and this issue can not easily be used to create an exploitable security vulnerability on Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 5.1
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity High
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1 ruby193-rubygem-bson Will not fix
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux ror40-rubygem-bson Will not fix
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux rh-ror41-rubygem-bson Will not fix
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux ruby193-rubygem-bson Will not fix
Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2 ruby193-rubygem-bson Will not fix
Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2 rubygem-bson Will not fix

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