CVE-2015-3900

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 6
Modified
Published: 24 Jun 2015, 14:00
Last modified:06 Aug 2024, 05:56

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
low
20/100
CVSS Score
5 MEDIUM
v2.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
2.4% LOW
2% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

24 Jun 2015, 14:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
06 Aug 2024, 05:56
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

RubyGems 2.0.x before 2.0.16, 2.2.x before 2.2.4, and 2.4.x before 2.4.7 does not validate the hostname when fetching gems or making API requests, which allows remote attackers to redirect requests to arbitrary domains via a crafted DNS SRV record, aka a "DNS hijack attack."

CVSS Metrics

  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 5AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 2.40%• Percentile: 85%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-254•7PK - Security Features

    Software security is not security software. Here we're concerned with topics like authentication, access control, confidentiality, cryptography, and privilege management.

Affected Systems

  • Unknown•Solaris

    11.3

  • redhat•enterprise_linux

    6.0 | 7.0

  • ruby-lang•ruby

    1.9 | 1.9.1 | 1.9.2 | 1.9.3 | 2.0.0 | 2.1 | 2.1.1 | 2.1.2 | 2.1.3 | 2.1.4 | 2.1.5 | 2.2.0

  • rubygems•rubygems

    2.0.0 | 2.0.1 | 2.0.2 | 2.0.3 | 2.0.4 | 2.0.5 | 2.0.6 | 2.0.7 | 2.0.8 | 2.0.9 | 2.0.10 | 2.0.11 | 2.0.12 | 2.0.13 | 2.0.14 | 2.0.15 | 2.2.0 | 2.2.1 | 2.2.2 | 2.2.3 | 2.4.0 | 2.4.1 | 2.4.2 | 2.4.3 | 2.4.4 | 2.4.5 | 2.4.6

References (11)