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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2015-2179

Medium
5.5/10

Summary

The xaviershay-dm-rails gem 0.10.3.8 for Ruby allows local users to discover MySQL credentials by listing a process and its arguments.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • HIGH
  • NONE

CWE-200 - Information Exposure

An information exposure vulnerability is categorized as an information flow (IF) weakness, which can potentially allow unauthorized access to otherwise classified information in the application, such as confidential personal information (demographics, financials, health records, etc.), business secrets, and the application's internal environment.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published