CRLF Injection Affecting ruby2.1 package, versions <2.1.5-2+deb8u4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.69% (90th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-RUBY21-280426
  • published12 Jun 2017
  • disclosed12 Jun 2017

Introduced: 12 Jun 2017

CVE-2015-9096  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-93  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 ruby2.1 to version 2.1.5-2+deb8u4 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ruby2.1 package and not the ruby2.1 package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

Net::SMTP in Ruby before 2.4.0 is vulnerable to SMTP command injection via CRLF sequences in a RCPT TO or MAIL FROM command, as demonstrated by CRLF sequences immediately before and after a DATA substring.