Improper Input Validation The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package jruby  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-JRUBY-602274
  • published19 Aug 2020
  • disclosed25 Aug 2015

Introduced: 25 Aug 2015

CVE-2015-4020  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:9.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream jruby package and not the jruby package as distributed by Debian.

RubyGems 2.0.x before 2.0.17, 2.2.x before 2.2.5, and 2.4.x before 2.4.8 does not validate the hostname when fetching gems or making API requests, which allows remote attackers to redirect requests to arbitrary domains via a crafted DNS SRV record with a domain that is suffixed with the original domain name, aka a "DNS hijack attack." NOTE: this vulnerability exists because to an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-3900.