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Red Hat: CVE-2019-16201: CVE-2019-16201 ruby: Regular expression denial of service vulnerability of WEBrick's Digest authentication (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2019-16201: CVE-2019-16201 ruby: Regular expression denial of service vulnerability of WEBrick's Digest authentication (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
11/26/2019
Created
06/30/2021
Added
06/30/2021
Modified
12/15/2023

Description

WEBrick::HTTPAuth::DigestAuth in Ruby through 2.4.7, 2.5.x through 2.5.6, and 2.6.x through 2.6.4 has a regular expression Denial of Service cause by looping/backtracking. A victim must expose a WEBrick server that uses DigestAuth to the Internet or a untrusted network.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-ruby
  • redhat-upgrade-ruby-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-ruby-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-ruby-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-ruby-doc
  • redhat-upgrade-ruby-irb
  • redhat-upgrade-ruby-libs
  • redhat-upgrade-ruby-libs-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-abrt
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-abrt-doc
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-bigdecimal
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-bigdecimal-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-bson
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-bson-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-bson-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-bson-doc
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-bundler
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-bundler-doc
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-did_you_mean
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-io-console
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-io-console-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-irb
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-json
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-json-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-minitest
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-mongo
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-mongo-doc
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-mysql2
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-mysql2-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-mysql2-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-mysql2-doc
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-net-telnet
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-openssl
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-openssl-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-pg
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-pg-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-pg-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-pg-doc
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-power_assert
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-psych
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-psych-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-rake
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-rdoc
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-test-unit
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-xmlrpc
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygems
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygems-devel

References

  • DSA-4587
  • CVE-2019-16201
  • RHSA-2021:2587
  • RHSA-2021:2588
  • RHSA-2022:0582

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