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CVE-2015-4412

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-02-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-400

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.

Affected products

• Bson Project Bson: 3.0.3

References

• 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=1229750
• https://github.com/mongodb/bson-ruby/commit/976da329ff03ecdfca3030eb6efe3c85e6db9999
• https://github.com/mongodb/bson-ruby/compare/7446d7c6764dfda8dc4480ce16d5c023e74be5ca...28f34978a85b689a4480b4d343389bf4886522e7
• https://sakurity.com/blog/2015/06/04/mongo_ruby_regexp.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=1229750
• https://github.com/mongodb/bson-ruby/commit/976da329ff03ecdfca3030eb6efe3c85e6db9999
• https://github.com/mongodb/bson-ruby/compare/7446d7c6764dfda8dc4480ce16d5c023e74be5ca...28f34978a85b689a4480b4d343389bf4886522e7
• https://sakurity.com/blog/2015/06/04/mongo_ruby_regexp.html

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