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HTTP Response Splitting Affecting ruby-doc package, versions <0:2.0.0.648-37.el7_6

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.68% (81st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-RUBYDOC-4907726
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed28 Mar 2018
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Introduced: 28 Mar 2018

CVE-2017-17742  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-113  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 ruby-doc to version 0:2.0.0.648-37.el7_6 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2020:2288.

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 before 2.2.10, 2.3.x before 2.3.7, 2.4.x before 2.4.4, 2.5.x before 2.5.1, and 2.6.0-preview1 allows an HTTP Response Splitting attack. An attacker can inject a crafted key and value into an HTTP response for the HTTP server of WEBrick.

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