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Improper Authentication The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package ruby2.5-doc-ri  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES151-RUBY25DOCRI-2713747
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed20 Mar 2020
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Introduced: 20 Mar 2020

CVE-2019-16201  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-287  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The SLES security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for SLES:15.1.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ruby2.5-doc-ri package and not the ruby2.5-doc-ri package as distributed by SLES.

WEBrick::HTTPAuth::DigestAuth in Ruby through 2.4.7, 2.5.x through 2.5.6, and 2.6.x through 2.6.4 has a regular expression Denial of Service cause by looping/backtracking. A victim must expose a WEBrick server that uses DigestAuth to the Internet or a untrusted network.