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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2018-1000078: Security patch for ruby20, ruby22, ruby23, ruby24 (ALAS-2018-983)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2018-1000078: Security patch for ruby20, ruby22, ruby23, ruby24 (ALAS-2018-983)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
03/13/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/06/2018
Modified
04/16/2020

Description

RubyGems version Ruby 2.2 series: 2.2.9 and earlier, Ruby 2.3 series: 2.3.6 and earlier, Ruby 2.4 series: 2.4.3 and earlier, Ruby 2.5 series: 2.5.0 and earlier, prior to trunk revision 62422 contains a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in gem server display of homepage attribute that can result in XSS. This attack appear to be exploitable via the victim must browse to a malicious gem on a vulnerable gem server. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 2.7.6.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade--ruby22
  • amazon-linux-upgrade--ruby23
  • amazon-linux-upgrade--ruby24
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-ruby20

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