HTTP Response Splitting Affecting ruby-doc package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.24% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-RUBYDOC-1385891
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed25 Oct 2019

Introduced: 25 Oct 2019

CVE-2019-16254  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-113  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 ruby-doc.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ruby-doc package and not the ruby-doc package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

Ruby through 2.4.7, 2.5.x through 2.5.6, and 2.6.x through 2.6.4 allows HTTP Response Splitting. If a program using WEBrick inserts untrusted input into the response header, an attacker can exploit it to insert a newline character to split a header, and inject malicious content to deceive clients. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2017-17742, which addressed the CRLF vector, but did not address an isolated CR or an isolated LF.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1