Reliance on Cookies without Validation and Integrity Checking Affecting rubygems package, versions <0:2.0.14.1-36.amzn2.0.7


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.77% (82nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2-RUBYGEMS-6371261
  • published5 Mar 2024
  • disclosed1 Jan 2022

Introduced: 1 Jan 2022

CVE-2021-41819  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-565  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 rubygems to version 0:2.0.14.1-36.amzn2.0.7 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2024-2486.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rubygems package and not the rubygems package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2 relevant fixed versions and status.

CGI::Cookie.parse in Ruby through 2.6.8 mishandles security prefixes in cookie names. This also affects the CGI gem through 0.3.0 for Ruby.

CVSS Scores

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