xaviershay-dm-rails Gem for Ruby exposes sensitive information via the process table
Published: February 17, 2015
SECURITY IDENTIFIERS
- CVE: CVE-2015-2179 (NVD)
- GHSA: GHSA-88p8-4vv5-82j7
- OSVDB: OSVDB-118579
GEM
SEVERITY
CVSS v3.x: 5.5 (Medium)
PATCHED VERSIONS
None available.
DESCRIPTION
xaviershay-dm-rails Gem for Ruby contains a flaw in the execute() function in /datamapper/dm-rails/blob/master/lib/dm-rails/storage.rb. The issue is due to the function exposing sensitive information via the process table. This may allow a local attack to gain access to MySQL credential information.
