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Red Hat: CVE-2018-1000078: Moderate: ruby security update (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2018-1000078: Moderate: ruby security update (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
03/13/2018
Created
08/08/2019
Added
08/07/2019
Modified
03/03/2021

Description

RubyGems version Ruby 2.2 series: 2.2.9 and earlier, Ruby 2.3 series: 2.3.6 and earlier, Ruby 2.4 series: 2.4.3 and earlier, Ruby 2.5 series: 2.5.0 and earlier, prior to trunk revision 62422 contains a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in gem server display of homepage attribute that can result in XSS. This attack appear to be exploitable via the victim must browse to a malicious gem on a vulnerable gem server. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 2.7.6.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-ruby
  • redhat-upgrade-ruby-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-ruby-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-ruby-doc
  • redhat-upgrade-ruby-irb
  • redhat-upgrade-ruby-libs
  • redhat-upgrade-ruby-tcltk
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-bigdecimal
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-io-console
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-json
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-minitest
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-psych
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-rake
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-rdoc
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygems
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygems-devel

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