Improper Authentication Affecting ruby package, versions [2.4.0,2.4.8)[2.5.0,2.5.7)[2.6.0,2.6.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.68% (81st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-RUBY-2370173
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed26 Nov 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 26 Nov 2019

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

How to fix?

Upgrade ruby to version 2.4.8, 2.5.7, 2.6.5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Authentication. 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.

CVSS Scores

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