PT-2017-13492 · Ruby · Geminabox

Barak Tawily · Published 2017-09-25 · Updated 2022-05-13 · CVE-2017-14506

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions geminabox versions prior to 0.13.6

Description The issue allows for Cross-site Scripting (XSS) attacks. This can be demonstrated by uploading a gem file with a crafted gem.homepage value in its .gemspec file.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.13.6, update to version 0.13.6 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the upload of gem files or validating the gem.homepage value in the .gemspec file to prevent malicious input.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-14506

GHSA-98HQ-3QVG-PG78

Affected Products

Geminabox

References · 7

• 🔥 http://baraktawily.blogspot.co.il/2017/09/gem-in-box-xss-vulenrability-cve-2017.html · Exploit
• https://github.com/geminabox/geminabox/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-14506 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14506 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-98hq-3qvg-pg78 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/geminabox/geminabox · Note
• https://github.com/geminabox/geminabox/commit/99aaae196c4fc6ae0df28e186ca1e493ae658e02 · Note