Information disclosure in RubyGems - CVE-2017-10784

 

Information disclosure in RubyGems - CVE-2017-10784

Published: September 15, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU8448
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-10784
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition or obtain potentially sensitive information on the target system.

The weakness exists due to escape sequence injection vulnerability in the Basic authentication of WEBrick. A remote attacker can supply a specially crafted user name value to the WEBrick Basic authentication function, inject escape sequence into the log file and view log contents.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in information disclosure or denial of service.

Affected software

RubyGems
Amazon Linux AMI
Debian Linux
Gentoo Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
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 EUS Compute Node
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power
macOS
Slackware Linux
Ubuntu
Fedora
ruby (Alpine package)
prayer (Alpine package)
libruby2.0 (Ubuntu package)
ruby2.0 (Ubuntu package)
rh-ruby22-ruby (Red Hat package)
rh-ruby23-ruby (Red Hat package)
ruby
EMC Integrated Data Protection Appliance
Dell EMC Data Protection Search

How to mitigate CVE-2017-10784

Update to version 2.2.8 or 2.3.5.

EMC Integrated Data Protection Appliance - update to 2.7.1
ruby (Alpine package) - addressed in versions 2.2.8-r0, 2.7.2-r0
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
rh-ruby22-ruby (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 2.2.9-19.el6, 2.2.9-19.el7
rh-ruby23-ruby (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 2.3.6-67.el6, 2.3.6-67.el7
ruby - addressed in versions 2.4.2-84.fc26, 2.4.2-84.fc27

External References

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