Desereliazation of untrusted data in Ruby - CVE-2018-1000074

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Desereliazation of untrusted data in Ruby - CVE-2018-1000074

Published: April 10, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU11650
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 9.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-1000074
CWE-ID: CWE-502
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The weakness exists in owner command due to desereliazation of untrusted data. A remote attacker can execute arbitrary code.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in system compromise.

Affected software

Ruby
Debian Linux
Amazon Linux AMI
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power
Ubuntu
Opensuse
Fedora
EMC Integrated Data Protection Appliance
Dell EMC Data Protection Search
libruby2.0 (Ubuntu package)
ruby2.0 (Ubuntu package)
ruby

How to mitigate CVE-2018-1000074

Update to version 2.7.6.

EMC Integrated Data Protection Appliance - update to 2.7.1
Dell EMC Data Protection Search - update to 19.6.0
libruby2.0 (Ubuntu package) - update to 2.0.0.484-1ubuntu2.13+esm1
ruby2.0 (Ubuntu package) - update to 2.0.0.484-1ubuntu2.13+esm1
ruby - addressed in versions 2.4.3-87.fc26, 2.4.3-87.fc27

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