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CVE-2012-4464

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-4464 is a vulnerability affecting Ruby versions 1.9.3 before patchlevel 286 and 2.0 before revision r37068. It allows context-dependent attackers to bypass safe-level restrictions and modify untainted strings through the exc_to_s or name_err_to_s API functions. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with a network attack vector, low access complexity, and a potential impact of partial integrity compromise. There is no evidence of active exploitation, readily available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.9.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.9.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9.3:p0:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.9.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9.3:p125:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.9.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9.3:p194:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.18%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
80.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0218 is in the 70th percentile among its peer group of 23,705 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (35)

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Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: graphviz-0:2.26.0-10.el6
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Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-console-0:0.0.16-1.el6op
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Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-broker-0:1.0.11-1.el6op
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Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-broker-util-0:1.0.15-1.el6op
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Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-cron-1.4-0:1.0.3-1.el6op
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Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-diy-0.1-0:1.0.3-1.el6op
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Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-haproxy-1.4-0:1.0.4-1.el6op
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Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-jbosseap-6.0-0:1.0.4-1.el6op
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Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-jbossews-1.0-0:1.0.13-1.el6op
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Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-jenkins-1.4-0:1.0.2-1.el6op
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Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-jenkins-client-1.4-0:1.0.2-1.el6op
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Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-mysql-5.1-0:1.0.5-1.el6op
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Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-perl-5.10-0:1.0.3-1.el6op
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Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-php-5.3-0:1.0.5-1.el6op
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Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-postgresql-8.4-0:1.0.3-2.el6op
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Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-ruby-1.8-0:1.0.7-1.el6op
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Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-ruby-1.9-scl-0:1.0.8-1.el6op
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Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-msg-node-mcollective-0:1.0.3-1.el6op
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Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: php-0:5.3.3-22.el6
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Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: ruby193-ruby-0:1.9.3.327-25.el6
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Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: ruby193-rubygem-actionpack-1:3.2.8-3.el6
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Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: ruby193-rubygem-activemodel-0:3.2.8-2.el6
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Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: ruby193-rubygem-activerecord-1:3.2.8-3.el6
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Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: ruby193-rubygem-railties-0:3.2.8-2.el6
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Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: ruby193-rubygem-ruby_parser-0:2.3.1-3.el6op
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Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: rubygem-actionpack-1:3.0.13-4.el6op
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Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: rubygem-activemodel-0:3.0.13-3.el6op
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Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: rubygem-activerecord-1:3.0.13-5.el6op
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Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: rubygem-bson-0:1.8.1-2.el6op
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Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: rubygem-mongo-0:1.8.1-2.el6op
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Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: rubygem-openshift-origin-auth-remote-user-0:1.0.5-1.el6op
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Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: rubygem-openshift-origin-console-0:1.0.10-1.el6op
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Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: rubygem-openshift-origin-controller-0:1.0.12-1.el6op
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: rubygem-openshift-origin-node-0:1.0.11-1.el6op
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Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: rubygem-ruby_parser-0:2.0.4-6.el6op
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Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-4464Low

1.9.3: Possibility to bypass Ruby's $SAFE (level 4) semantics

Sep 28, 2012

References

lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/089554.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/089887.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
svn.ruby-lang.org / cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/10/02/4
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/10/03/9
ruby-lang.org / en/news/2012/10/12/cve-2012-4464-cve-2012-4466
Vendor Advisory