HTTP Response Splitting Affecting ruby package, versions <2.5.1-r0
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.66% (80th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-ALPINE39-RUBY-338879
- published 3 Apr 2018
- disclosed 3 Apr 2018
Introduced: 3 Apr 2018
CVE-2017-17742 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Alpine:3.9
ruby
to version 2.5.1-r0 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ruby
package and not the ruby
package as distributed by Alpine
.
See How to fix?
for Alpine:3.9
relevant fixed versions and status.
Ruby before 2.2.10, 2.3.x before 2.3.7, 2.4.x before 2.4.4, 2.5.x before 2.5.1, and 2.6.0-preview1 allows an HTTP Response Splitting attack. An attacker can inject a crafted key and value into an HTTP response for the HTTP server of WEBrick.
References
- https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2018/03/28/http-response-splitting-in-webrick-cve-2017-17742/
- https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2018/03/28/ruby-2-2-10-released/
- https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2018/03/28/ruby-2-3-7-released/
- https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2018/03/28/ruby-2-4-4-released/
- https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2018/03/28/ruby-2-5-1-released/
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-17742
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4259
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00023.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00024.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00012.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17742
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00009.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00027.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2028
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3729
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3730
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3731
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103684
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042004
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00036.html
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-17742
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3685-1/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/04/msg00033.html