Information Exposure Affecting ruby-rest-client package, versions <1.8.0-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (5th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN13-RUBYRESTCLIENT-5694368
  • published29 Apr 2015
  • disclosed29 Apr 2015

Introduced: 29 Apr 2015

CVE-2015-3448  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:13 ruby-rest-client to version 1.8.0-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ruby-rest-client package and not the ruby-rest-client package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:13 relevant fixed versions and status.

REST client for Ruby (aka rest-client) before 1.7.3 logs usernames and passwords, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the log.

CVSS Base Scores

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