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CVE-2015-4412 — Vulnerability in bson — CVE Details

CRITICAL

bson is vulnerable to denial of service due to incorrect regex validation

Published March 5, 2018Updated February 16, 2024Source: osv

Summary

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.

Advisory Timeline

  • First published March 5, 2018 (3143 days ago).
  • Last revised February 16, 2024 — 2174 days after initial publication.

Remediation

Upgrade to the fixed version using your package manager.

Bundler
Update bson to 1.12.3 or later
gem install bson -v 1.12.3
Bundler
Update bson to 3.0.4 or later
gem install bson -v 3.0.4

After upgrading, run your dependency scanner again to confirm the vulnerability is resolved.

Affected Packages (2)

Affects 1 ecosystem: rubygems (1).

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed In
bson
rubygems
0.20, 0.20.1, 1.0, 1.0.1 (+65 more)1.12.3
bson
rubygems
2.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.1.2 (+10 more)3.0.4

Vulnerability Classification

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) identifiers for this vulnerability type.

  • CWE-400
    Uncontrolled Resource ConsumptionMITRE

CVSS Score Breakdown

What the CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System) 9.8 score means for each attack dimension.

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Frequently Asked Questions

What is CVE-2015-4412?
bson is vulnerable to denial of service due to incorrect regex validation This vulnerability has been assigned a severity rating of CRITICAL (CVSS score: 9.8/10).
How do I check if my project is affected by CVE-2015-4412?
CVE-2015-4412 affects bson. Use GeekWala's free vulnerability scanner to check your dependencies against CVE-2015-4412 and 200,000+ other known vulnerabilities.

Severity & Exploitability

CVSS Score
9.8

Exploitation is straightforward and causes maximum impact. Patch immediately.

Also Known As

GHSA-h6rj-8r3c-9gpj

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