GitHub Advisoryadvisory · RubyGems

GHSA-573x-jhqh-jg36 Improper Certificate Validation in chloride

HIGH Published 2019-03-25 Modified 2022-09-17 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2018-6517
Ecosystem
RubyGems
Packages
chloride
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-295
Reviewed
2020-06-16

Affected packages

• RubyGems chloride: < 0.3.0 → fixed in 0.3.0

Description

Prior to version 0.3.0, chloride's use of net-ssh resulted in host fingerprints for previously unknown hosts getting added to the user's known_hosts file without confirmation. In version 0.3.0 this is updated so that the user's known_hosts file is not updated by chloride.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2018-6517 Prior to version 0.3.0, chloride's use of net-ssh resulted in host fingerprints for previously unknown hosts getting added to the user's… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation weakness

References