SB2020090109 - Amazon Linux AMI update for ruby24
Published: September 1, 2020
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 8 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2012-6708)
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data within the jQuery(strInput) function that does not differentiate selectors from HTML. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
2) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2015-9251)
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data when a cross-domain Ajax request is performed without the dataType option. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary text/javascript responses in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
3) HTTP response splitting (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-17742)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform HTTP response splitting attack.The weakness exists due to improper handling of HTTP requests. If a script accepts an external input and outputs it without modification as a part of HTTP responses, a remote attacker can use newline characters to trick the victim that the HTTP response header is stopped at there and inject fake HTTP responses after the newline characters to show malicious contents to the victim.
4) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-15845)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass certain security restrictions.
The vulnerability exists in Ruby due to insufficient validation of user-supplied files within File.fnmatch and File.fnmatch? functions when processing NUL byte in the filename. A remote attacker can bypass implemented security restrictions and gain unauthorized access to the system.
5) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-16201)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input within the WEBrick::HTTPAuth::DigestAuth in Ruby due to a regular expression issue. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted request to the application and perform a denial of service attack.
6) HTTP Response Splitting (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-16254)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform HTTP response splitting attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of CRLF sequences within the WEBrick in Ruby. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted request to the application and perform a spoofing attack.
7) Code injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-16255)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation in lib/shell.rb in Ruby when processing Shell#[] and its alias Shell#test. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted request and execute arbitrary Ruby code on the target system.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
8) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-10663)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to manipulate data.
The JSON gem through 2.2.0 for Ruby, as used in Ruby 2.4 through 2.4.9, 2.5 through 2.5.7, and 2.6 through 2.6.5, has an Unsafe Object Creation Vulnerability. This is quite similar to CVE-2013-0269, but does not rely on poor garbage-collection behavior within Ruby. Specifically, use of JSON parsing methods can lead to creation of a malicious object within the interpreter, with adverse effects that are application-dependent.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.