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CVE-2015-4020

Public on 2015-06-16
Modified on 2015-06-18
Description

A flaw was found in a way rubygems verified the API endpoint hostname retrieved through a DNS SRV record. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to force a client to download content from an untrusted domain.

Severity
Important
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CVSS v3 Base Score
7.9
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 ruby20 2015-06-16 10:30 ALAS-2015-547
Amazon Linux 1 ruby21 2015-06-16 10:30 ALAS-2015-548
Amazon Linux 1 ruby22 2015-06-16 10:30 ALAS-2015-549

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 7.9 AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
NVD CVSSv2 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N