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CVE-2016-4442

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-05-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The rack-mini-profiler gem before 0.10.1 for Ruby allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information about allocated strings and objects by leveraging incorrect ordering of security checks.

Affected products

• Miniprofiler Rack-Mini-Profiler: through 0.9.9.2

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/10/2
• https://github.com/MiniProfiler/rack-mini-profiler/blob/v0.10.1/CHANGELOG.md
• https://github.com/MiniProfiler/rack-mini-profiler/commit/4273771d65f1a7411e3ef5843329308d0e2d257c
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/10/2
• https://github.com/MiniProfiler/rack-mini-profiler/blob/v0.10.1/CHANGELOG.md
• https://github.com/MiniProfiler/rack-mini-profiler/commit/4273771d65f1a7411e3ef5843329308d0e2d257c

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