Vulnerability CVE-2016-3693
Published: 2016-05-20

Description:
The Safemode gem before 1.2.4 for Ruby, when initialized with a delegate object that is a Rails controller, allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information via the inspect method.

Type:

CWE-264

 (Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.8/10
6.4/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Safemode project -> Safemode 
Rubygems -> Safemode 

 References:
http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/14635
http://rubysec.com/advisories/CVE-2016-3693/
http://theforeman.org/security.html#2016-3693
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/20/8
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0336
https://github.com/svenfuchs/safemode/commit/0f764a1720a3a68fd2842e21377c8bfad6d7126f
https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/commit/82f9b93c54f72c5814df6bab7fad057eab65b2f2
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