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CVE-2019-16779: Improper Input Validation

December 16, 2019 (updated December 30, 2019)

In RubyGem excon, there was a race condition around persistent connections, where a connection which is interrupted (such as by a timeout) would leave data on the socket. Subsequent requests would then read this data, returning content from the previous response. The race condition window appears to be short, and it would be difficult to purposefully exploit this.

References

  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-16779

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Affected versions

All versions before 0.71.0

Fixed versions

  • 0.71.0

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.71.0 or above.

Impact 5.9 MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

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Weakness

  • CWE-20: Improper Input Validation

Source file

gem/excon/CVE-2019-16779.yml

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