PT-2017-14563 · Ruby · Geminabox

Yasin Soliman · Published 2017-11-13 · Updated 2019-09-26 · CVE-2017-16792

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.1

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions geminabox versions prior to 0.13.10

Description A stored cross-site scripting (XSS) issue allows attackers to inject arbitrary web script via the homepage value of a .gemspec file. This is related to the views/gem.erb and views/index.erb files.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.13.10, update to version 0.13.10 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the ability to modify the homepage value in .gemspec files to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-16792

GHSA-653M-R33X-39FF

Affected Products

Geminabox

References · 7

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16792 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-16792 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-653m-r33x-39ff · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/geminabox/geminabox/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md · Note
• https://github.com/geminabox/geminabox · Note
• https://github.com/geminabox/geminabox/commit/f8429a9e364658459add170e4ebc7a5d3b4759e7 · Note
• https://rubygems.org/gems/geminabox/versions/0.13.10 · Note