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Ruby Improper Authentication Vulnerability (CVE-2017-10784)

Description

The Basic authentication code in WEBrick library in Ruby before 2.2.8, 2.3.x before 2.3.5, and 2.4.x through 2.4.1 allows remote attackers to inject terminal emulator escape sequences into its log and possibly execute arbitrary commands via a crafted user name.

Remediation

References

CVE-2017-10784

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Severity

High

Classification

CVE-2017-10784 CWE-287 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Tags

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