Cryptographic Issues Affecting rubygem19-rake package, versions <0:0.9.2.2-32.60.amzn1


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.57% (78th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN201803-RUBYGEM19RAKE-1672288
  • published27 Sept 2021
  • disclosed17 Oct 2013

Introduced: 17 Oct 2013

CVE-2013-4363  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-310  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2018.03 rubygem19-rake to version 0:0.9.2.2-32.60.amzn1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS-2014-290.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rubygem19-rake package and not the rubygem19-rake package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2018.03 relevant fixed versions and status.

Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in Gem::Version::ANCHORED_VERSION_PATTERN in lib/rubygems/version.rb in RubyGems before 1.8.23.2, 1.8.24 through 1.8.26, 2.0.x before 2.0.10, and 2.1.x before 2.1.5, as used in Ruby 1.9.0 through 2.0.0p247, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted gem version that triggers a large amount of backtracking in a regular expression. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-4287.

CVSS Scores

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