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CVE-2016-4442
The rack-mini-profiler gem before 0.10.1 for Ruby allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information about allocated strings and…
- 5.3MediumCVSS base score
- 1.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 25% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The rack-mini-profiler gem before 0.10.1 for Ruby allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information about allocated strings and objects by leveraging incorrect ordering of security checks.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 12 months later
· 12 months later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.6% · top 25% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- RubyGemsrack-mini-profilerGHSA-j5hj-fhc9-g24m (opens in a new tab)
References
3
- https://github.com/MiniProfiler/rack-mini-profiler/blob/v0.10.1/CHANGELOG.md (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20160610 Ruby gem rack-mini-profiler CVE-2016-4442 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://github.com/MiniProfiler/rack-mini-profiler/commit/4273771d65f1a7411e3ef5843329308d0e2d257c (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2017-0257 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-j5hj-fhc9-g24m (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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