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CVE-2015-4020

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-20 Input Validation
Publication date:
25/08/2015
Last modified:
12/04/2025

Description

RubyGems 2.0.x before 2.0.17, 2.2.x before 2.2.5, and 2.4.x before 2.4.8 does not validate the hostname when fetching gems or making API requests, which allows remote attackers to redirect requests to arbitrary domains via a crafted DNS SRV record with a domain that is suffixed with the original domain name, aka a "DNS hijack attack." NOTE: this vulnerability exists because to an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-3900.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.30 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0
4.30
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:oracle:solaris:11.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubygems:rubygems:2.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubygems:rubygems:2.0.0:preview2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubygems:rubygems:2.0.0:preview2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubygems:rubygems:2.0.0:preview2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubygems:rubygems:2.0.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubygems:rubygems:2.0.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubygems:rubygems:2.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubygems:rubygems:2.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubygems:rubygems:2.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubygems:rubygems:2.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubygems:rubygems:2.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubygems:rubygems:2.0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubygems:rubygems:2.0.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubygems:rubygems:2.0.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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