Ruby 1.8.5 and earlier, 1.8.6 through 1.8.6-p286, 1.8.7 through 1.8.7-p71, and 1.9 through r18423 does not properly restrict access to critical variables and methods at various safe levels, which allows context-dependent attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via (1) untrace_var, (2) $PROGRAM_NAME, and (3) syslog at safe level 4, and (4) insecure methods at safe levels 1 through 3.
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History

No history.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2008-08-13T01:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T09:45:18.972Z

Reserved: 2008-08-12T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2008-3655

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2008-08-13T01:41:00.000

Modified: 2024-11-21T00:49:47.800

Link: CVE-2008-3655

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2008-08-08T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2008-3655 - Bugzilla