CVEvulnerability
CVE-2005-1992
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2005-06-20
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Description
The XMLRPC server in utils.rb for the ruby library (libruby) 1.8 sets an invalid default value that prevents "security protection" using handlers, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands.
Affected configurations
• yukihiro matsumoto ruby 1.8
References
- http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-core/5237 Patch
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=315064 bugs.debian.org
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Sep/msg00002.html lists.apple.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/16920/ secunia.com
- http://www.auscert.org.au/5509 www.auscert.org.au
- http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-312.shtml www.ciac.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-748 www.debian.org
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/684913 US Government Resource
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_18_sr.html www.novell.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-543.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14016 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www2.ruby-lang.org/en/20050701.html www2.ruby-lang.org
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10819 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-core/5237 Patch
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=315064 bugs.debian.org
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Sep/msg00002.html lists.apple.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/16920/ secunia.com
- http://www.auscert.org.au/5509 www.auscert.org.au
- http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-312.shtml www.ciac.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-748 www.debian.org
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/684913 US Government Resource
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_18_sr.html www.novell.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-543.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14016 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www2.ruby-lang.org/en/20050701.html www2.ruby-lang.org
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10819 oval.cisecurity.org