Insecure Permissions Affecting octopoller package, versions >=0.2.0, <0.3.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.04% (14th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-OCTOPOLLER-2928759
  • published 16 Jun 2022
  • disclosed 16 Jun 2022
  • credit nickfloyd

How to fix?

Upgrade octopoller to version 0.3.0 or higher.

Overview

octopoller is a micro gem for polling and retrying, perfect for making repeating requests.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insecure Permissions due to the gem file containing world-writable files, this means everyone who is not the owner (Group and Public) with access to the instance where this release had been installed could modify the world-writable files from this gem.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
2.5 low
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Local
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    High
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    Low
  • Availability (A)
    None
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NVD

3.3 low