Improper Authentication Affecting ruby package, versions <2.5.7-r0
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.66% (80th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-ALPINE39-RUBY-513170
- published 13 Nov 2019
- disclosed 26 Nov 2019
Introduced: 13 Nov 2019
CVE-2019-16201 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Alpine:3.9
ruby
to version 2.5.7-r0 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ruby
package and not the ruby
package as distributed by Alpine
.
See How to fix?
for Alpine:3.9
relevant fixed versions and status.
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.
References
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/31
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/32
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-16201
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4587
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/11/msg00025.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00009.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-16201
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-06
- https://hackerone.com/reports/661722
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2020.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00027.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00041.html
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2019-16201
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/04/msg00033.html