Information disclosure in The Safemode gem for Ruby - CVE-2016-3693

 

Information disclosure in The Safemode gem for Ruby - CVE-2016-3693

Published: February 27, 2018 / Updated: March 19, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU10736
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-3693
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information.

The weakness exists due to a provisioning template containing `inspect` when initialized with a delegate object that is a Rails controller. A remote context-dependent attacker can use the inspect method and access sensitive information.

Affected software

The Safemode gem for Ruby
Red Hat Satellite

How to mitigate CVE-2016-3693

Update to version 1.2.4.


External References

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