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CVE-2017-0900
RubyGems version 2.6.12 and earlier is vulnerable to maliciously crafted gem specifications to cause a denial of service attack against…
High7.5EPSS 8.5%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- hackerone
Description
RubyGems version 2.6.12 and earlier is vulnerable to maliciously crafted gem specifications to cause a denial of service attack against RubyGems clients who have issued a `query` command.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 8.5% · top 5.0% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- RubyGemsrubygems-updateGHSA-p7f2-rr42-m9xm (opens in a new tab)
References (12)
- RHSA-2018:0585 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- DSA-3966 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:0378 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://hackerone.com/reports/243003 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 1039249 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:3485 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20180714 [SECURITY] [DLA 1421-1] ruby2.1 security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 100579 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:0583 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- GLSA-201710-01 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- http://blog.rubygems.org/2017/08/27/2.6.13-released.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/commit/8a38a4fc24c6591e6c8f43d1fadab6efeb4d6251 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-p7f2-rr42-m9xm (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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