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CVE-2018-16396

Public on 2018-11-16
Modified on 2020-08-12
Description

An issue was discovered in Ruby before 2.3.8, 2.4.x before 2.4.5, 2.5.x before 2.5.2, and 2.6.x before 2.6.0-preview3. It does not taint strings that result from unpacking tainted strings with some formats.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
5.9
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 2 - Core ruby 2019-08-23 03:41 ALAS2-2019-1276
Amazon Linux 1 ruby20 2020-08-10 23:07 ALAS-2020-1416
Amazon Linux 1 ruby23 2018-12-06 00:31 ALAS-2018-1113
Amazon Linux 1 ruby24 2018-12-06 00:31 ALAS-2018-1113

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 5.9 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 8.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H