PT-2017-8488 · Ruby · Rack-Mini-Profiler

Sam Saffron · Published 2017-05-02 · Updated 2018-08-13 · CVE-2016-4442

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions rack-mini-profiler gem versions prior to 0.10.1

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

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.10.1, update to version 0.10.1 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-4442

GHSA-995J-587R-259W

GHSA-J5HJ-FHC9-G24M

Affected Products

Rack-Mini-Profiler

References · 9

• https://github.com/MiniProfiler/rack-mini-profiler/commit/4273771d65f1a7411e3ef5843329308d0e2d257c · Patch
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/10/2 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4442 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-j5hj-fhc9-g24m · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-995j-587r-259w · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-4442 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/MiniProfiler/rack-mini-profiler · Note
• https://github.com/MiniProfiler/rack-mini-profiler/blob/v0.10.1/CHANGELOG.md · Note
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-995j-587r-259w · Note