9.8
CRITICAL
CVE-2015-4412
MongoDB BSON Ruby Injection Denial-of-Service
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.

INFO

Published Date :

Feb. 5, 2018, 4:29 p.m.

Last Modified :

Nov. 21, 2024, 2:31 a.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

5.9

Exploitability Score :

3.9
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2015-4412 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Bson_project bson

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The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2015-4412 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

    Nov. 21, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/06/3
    Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75045
    Added Reference https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1229750
    Added Reference https://github.com/mongodb/bson-ruby/commit/976da329ff03ecdfca3030eb6efe3c85e6db9999
    Added Reference https://github.com/mongodb/bson-ruby/compare/7446d7c6764dfda8dc4480ce16d5c023e74be5ca...28f34978a85b689a4480b4d343389bf4886522e7
    Added Reference https://sakurity.com/blog/2015/06/04/mongo_ruby_regexp.html
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Mar. 13, 2018

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V2 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
    Added CVSS V3 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
    Changed Reference Type https://sakurity.com/blog/2015/06/04/mongo_ruby_regexp.html No Types Assigned https://sakurity.com/blog/2015/06/04/mongo_ruby_regexp.html Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/06/3 No Types Assigned http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/06/3 Mailing List
    Changed Reference Type https://github.com/mongodb/bson-ruby/compare/7446d7c6764dfda8dc4480ce16d5c023e74be5ca...28f34978a85b689a4480b4d343389bf4886522e7 No Types Assigned https://github.com/mongodb/bson-ruby/compare/7446d7c6764dfda8dc4480ce16d5c023e74be5ca...28f34978a85b689a4480b4d343389bf4886522e7 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75045 No Types Assigned http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75045 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
    Changed Reference Type https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1229750 No Types Assigned https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1229750 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://github.com/mongodb/bson-ruby/commit/976da329ff03ecdfca3030eb6efe3c85e6db9999 No Types Assigned https://github.com/mongodb/bson-ruby/commit/976da329ff03ecdfca3030eb6efe3c85e6db9999 Third Party Advisory
    Added CWE CWE-400
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:bson_project:bson:3.0.3:*:*:*:*:ruby:*:*
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CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

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Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

0.68 }} -0.70%

score

0.79763

percentile

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