bson is vulnerable to denial of service due to incorrect regex validation · CVE-2015-4412 · GitHub Advisory Database · GitHub

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

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published Mar 5, 2018 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Aug 25, 2023

Package

bson (RubyGems)

Affected versions

>= 2.0, < 3.0.4

< 1.12.3

Patched versions

3.0.4

1.12.3

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.

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Mar 5, 2018

Reviewed Jun 16, 2020

Last updated Aug 25, 2023

Severity

Critical

9.8

/ 10

CVSS base metrics

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