CVE-2017-0900

Public on 2017-08-31
Modified on 2018-01-18
Description

It was found that rubygems could use an excessive amount of CPU while parsing a sufficiently long gem summary. A specially crafted gem from a gem repository could freeze gem commands attempting to parse its summary.

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:N/A:L
NVD CVSSv2 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H