Access Restriction Bypass Affecting chloride package, versions <0.3.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (36th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUBY-CHLORIDE-451553
  • published8 Jul 2019
  • disclosed8 Mar 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 8 Mar 2019

CVE-2018-6517  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade chloride to version 0.3.0 or higher.

Overview

chloride is a streaming NetSSH implementation.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. It use's of net-ssh resulted in host fingerprints for previously unknown hosts getting added to the user's known_hosts file without confirmation.

CVSS Scores

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