GHSA-f93j-hmcr-jcwh

Moped Rubygem Data Injection Vulnerability

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2015-4410

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
RubyGems	moped	< 1.5.3	1.5.3
RubyGems	moped	>= 2.0.0, < 2.0.5	2.0.5

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

`The Moped::BSON::ObjecId.legal?` method in rubygem-moped before [commit dd5a7c14b5d2e466f7875d079af71ad19774609b](https://github.com/mongoid/moped/commit/dd5a7c14b5d2e466f7875d079af71ad19774609b#diff-3b93602f64c2fe46d38efd9f73ef5358R24) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (worker resource consumption) or perform a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack via a crafted string.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-4410 advisory
https://github.com/mongoid/moped/commit/dd5a7c14b5d2e466f7875d079af71ad19774609b#diff-3b93602f64c2fe46d38efd9f73ef5358R24 web
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1229757 web
https://github.com/mongoid/moped web
https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/moped/CVE-2015-4410.yml web
https://homakov.blogspot.ru/2012/05/saferweb-injects-in-various-ruby.html web
https://sakurity.com/blog/2015/06/04/mongo_ruby_regexp.html web
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q2/653 web
https://web.archive.org/web/20200228085849/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75045 web
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-July/161964.html web
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-July/161987.html web
http://sakurity.com/blog/2015/06/04/mongo_ruby_regexp.html web
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/06/3 web