CVE-2017-0899

Public on 2017-08-31

Modified on 2018-01-18

Description

A vulnerability was found where rubygems did not properly sanitize gems' specification text. A specially crafted gem could interact with the terminal via the use of escape sequences.

Severity

Low

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CVSS v3 Base Score

4.3

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Affected Packages

Platform	Package	Release Date	Advisory
Amazon Linux 1	ruby22	2017-10-02 17:01	ALAS-2017-906
Amazon Linux 1	ruby23	2017-10-02 17:01	ALAS-2017-906
Amazon Linux 1	ruby24	2017-10-26 17:01	ALAS-2017-915

CVSS Scores

	Score Type	Score	Vector
Amazon Linux	CVSSv3	4.3	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
NVD	CVSSv2	7.5	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD	CVSSv3	9.8	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Red Hat: CVE-2017-0899 Mitre: CVE-2017-0899 FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity