Vulnerability Report

CVE-2012-4481

Title: Ruby-Lang Ruby

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2012-4481.

CWE Category CWE-264

Published Date May 02, 2013

Modified Date Apr 29, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.49%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2012-4481: 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.

Impacted Vendors

yukihiro_matsumoto 1

ruby-lang 1

Reference Links

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0129.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0612.html http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:124 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/05/4 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=863484 https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-0294 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0129.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0612.html http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:124 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/05/4 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=863484 https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-0294

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2012-4481 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

May 02, 2013 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.