Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published May 2, 2013· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2012-4481
CVE-2012-4481
Description
The safe-level feature in Ruby 1.8.7 allows context-dependent attackers to modify strings via the NameError#to_s method when operating on Ruby objects. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2011-1005.
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