PT-2019-11025 · Chloride · Chloride

Published 2019-03-17 · Updated 2019-10-03 · CVE-2018-6517

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: chloride versions prior to 0.3.0

Description: The issue concerns the handling of host fingerprints for previously unknown hosts. Without proper confirmation, host fingerprints were added to the user's known hosts file. This behavior has been updated in version 0.3.0 to prevent the user's known hosts file from being updated by chloride.

Recommendations: For versions prior to 0.3.0, update to version 0.3.0 or later to prevent the user's known hosts file from being updated without confirmation.

Exploit

Fix

Improper Certificate Validation

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-295

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-6517

GHSA-573X-JHQH-JG36

Affected Products

Chloride

References · 6

• 🔥 https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/chloride/CVE-2018-6517.yml · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-6517 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6517 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-573x-jhqh-jg36 · Vendor Advisory
• https://puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6517 · Note
• https://web.archive.org/web/20201001014342/https://puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6517 · Note