CVE-2015-4410

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2020-02-20 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The Moped::BSON::ObjecId.legal? method in rubygem-moped before commit dd5a7c14b5d2e466f7875d079af71ad19774609b allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (worker resource consumption) or perform a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack via a crafted string.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 21, 22
Moped Project Moped: all versions

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-July/161964.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-July/161987.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/06/3
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75045
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1229757
https://github.com/mongoid/moped/commit/dd5a7c14b5d2e466f7875d079af71ad19774609b#diff-3b93602f64c2fe46d38efd9f73ef5358R24
https://homakov.blogspot.ru/2012/05/saferweb-injects-in-various-ruby.html
https://sakurity.com/blog/2015/06/04/mongo_ruby_regexp.html
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q2/653
https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75045
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-July/161964.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-July/161987.html

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