CVE-2015-4412
9.8
CRITICAL · CVSS 3.0 · EPSS 4.7% (pctl 92)
In your normal cycle
Critical by CVSS (9.8), but no sign of active exploitation.
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.
Scoring
| CVSS | 9.8 (CRITICAL, v3.0) |
|---|---|
| Vector | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 4.66% — more likely to be exploited than 92% of all CVEs |
| Weakness | CWE-400 |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | none known |
| Published | 2018-02-05 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-17 |
Affected (1)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| bson project | bson |
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/06/3
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75045
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1229750
- https://github.com/mongodb/bson-ruby/commit/976da329ff03ecdfca3030eb6efe3c85e6db9999
- https://github.com/mongodb/bson-ruby/compare/7446d7c6764dfda8dc4480ce16d5c023e74be5ca...28f34978a85b689a4480b4d343389bf4886522e7
- https://sakurity.com/blog/2015/06/04/mongo_ruby_regexp.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/06/3
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75045
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1229750
- https://github.com/mongodb/bson-ruby/commit/976da329ff03ecdfca3030eb6efe3c85e6db9999
- https://github.com/mongodb/bson-ruby/compare/7446d7c6764dfda8dc4480ce16d5c023e74be5ca...28f34978a85b689a4480b4d343389bf4886522e7
- https://sakurity.com/blog/2015/06/04/mongo_ruby_regexp.html
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