GitHub Advisoryadvisory · RubyGems
GHSA-xgv7-pqqh-h2w9 jruby-openssl gem for JRuby fails to do proper certificate validation
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2009-4123
- Ecosystem
- RubyGems
- Packages
- jruby-openssl
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-295
- Reviewed
- 2023-01-19
Affected packages
• RubyGems jruby-openssl: < 0.6 → fixed in 0.6
Description
A security problem involving peer certificate verification was found where failed verification silently did nothing, making affected applications vulnerable to attackers. Attackers could lead a client application to believe that a secure connection to a rogue SSL server is legitimate. Attackers could also penetrate client-validated SSL server applications with a dummy certificate.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2009-4123 The jruby-openssl gem before 0.6 for JRuby mishandles SSL certificate validation. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation weakness
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-4123 advisory
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xgv7-pqqh-h2w9 advisory
- https://github.com/jruby/jruby-openssl web
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/jruby-openssl/CVE-2009-4123.yml web
- https://web.archive.org/web/20101213091125/http://jruby.org/2009/12/07/vulnerability-in-jruby-openssl web
- http://jruby.org/2009/12/07/vulnerability-in-jruby-openssl web