VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-0903

critical
Published 2017-10-09 · Modified 2024-02-22
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CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.8

Description

RubyGems versions between 2.0.0 and 2.6.13 are vulnerable to a possible remote code execution vulnerability. YAML deserialization of gem specifications can bypass class white lists. Specially crafted serialized objects can possibly be used to escalate to remote code execution.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
redhat Red Hat Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
7.0 Affected —
suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Affected —
ubuntu Ubuntu Affected 3 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
17.10 Affected —
16.04 Affected —
14.04 Affected —
debian Debian Mixed 7 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 3.2.0~rc.1-1
sid Fixed 3.2.0~rc.1-1
forky Fixed 3.2.0~rc.1-1
bullseye Fixed 3.2.0~rc.1-1
bookworm Fixed 3.2.0~rc.1-1
9.0 Affected —
8.0 Affected —

Package impact
EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
ruby RubyGemsrubygems-update!< 2.0.0||<>= 2.6.14>= 2.6.14
ruby RubyGemsrubygems-update>=2.0.0,<2.6.142.6.14

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
rubygemsrubygems2.0.0
rubygemsrubygems2.0.1
rubygemsrubygems2.0.2
rubygemsrubygems2.0.3
rubygemsrubygems2.0.4
rubygemsrubygems2.0.5
rubygemsrubygems2.0.6
rubygemsrubygems2.0.7
rubygemsrubygems2.0.8
rubygemsrubygems2.0.9
rubygemsrubygems2.0.10
rubygemsrubygems2.0.11
rubygemsrubygems2.0.12
rubygemsrubygems2.0.13
rubygemsrubygems2.0.14
rubygemsrubygems2.0.15
rubygemsrubygems2.0.16
rubygemsrubygems2.0.17
rubygemsrubygems2.1.0
rubygemsrubygems2.1.0.rc.1
rubygemsrubygems2.1.0.rc.2
rubygemsrubygems2.1.1
rubygemsrubygems2.1.2
rubygemsrubygems2.1.3
rubygemsrubygems2.1.4
rubygemsrubygems2.1.5
rubygemsrubygems2.1.6
rubygemsrubygems2.1.7
rubygemsrubygems2.1.8
rubygemsrubygems2.1.9
rubygemsrubygems2.1.10
rubygemsrubygems2.1.11
rubygemsrubygems2.2.0
rubygemsrubygems2.2.0.preiew.1
rubygemsrubygems2.2.0.rc.1
rubygemsrubygems2.2.1
rubygemsrubygems2.2.2
rubygemsrubygems2.2.3
rubygemsrubygems2.2.4
rubygemsrubygems2.2.5
rubygemsrubygems2.3.0
rubygemsrubygems2.4.0
rubygemsrubygems2.4.1
rubygemsrubygems2.4.2
rubygemsrubygems2.4.3
rubygemsrubygems2.4.4
rubygemsrubygems2.4.5
rubygemsrubygems2.4.6
rubygemsrubygems2.4.7
rubygemsrubygems2.4.8
rubygemsrubygems2.5.0
rubygemsrubygems2.5.1
rubygemsrubygems2.5.2
rubygemsrubygems2.6.0
rubygemsrubygems2.6.1
rubygemsrubygems2.6.2
rubygemsrubygems2.6.3
rubygemsrubygems2.6.4
rubygemsrubygems2.6.5
rubygemsrubygems2.6.6
rubygemsrubygems2.6.7
rubygemsrubygems2.6.8
rubygemsrubygems2.6.9
rubygemsrubygems2.6.10
rubygemsrubygems2.6.11
rubygemsrubygems2.6.12
rubygemsrubygems2.6.13

References

CWEs

CWE-502

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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