rack-mini-profiler allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information about allocated strings and objects · CVE-2016-4442 · GitHub Advisory Database · GitHub

rack-mini-profiler allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information about allocated strings and objects

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Oct 24, 2017 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 23, 2023

Package

rack-mini-profiler (RubyGems)

Affected versions

< 0.10.1

Patched versions

0.10.1

Description

The rack-mini-profiler gem before 0.10.1 for Ruby allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information about allocated strings and objects by leveraging incorrect ordering of security checks.

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Oct 24, 2017

Reviewed Jun 16, 2020

Last updated Jan 23, 2023

Severity

Moderate

5.3

/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector

Network

Attack complexity

Low

Privileges required

None

User interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

None

Availability

None

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