Medium
Security advisory
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.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2016-4442
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 09:45 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2016-4442
Complete source record
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