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rubygems: Missing URL validation on spec home attribute allows malicious gem to set an invalid homepage URL

Published Mar 13, 2018

Description

RubyGems version Ruby 2.2 series: 2.2.9 and earlier, Ruby 2.3 series: 2.3.6 and earlier, Ruby 2.4 series: 2.4.3 and earlier, Ruby 2.5 series: 2.5.0 and earlier, prior to trunk revision 62422 contains a Improper Input Validation vulnerability in ruby gems specification homepage attribute that can result in a malicious gem could set an invalid homepage URL. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 2.7.6.

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Red Hat statement

This issue affects the versions of rubygems as shipped with Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.x. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having security impact of Moderate. A future update may address this issue. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/. This issue affects the versions of rubygems as shipped with Red Hat Satellite version 6 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having security impact of Moderate. A future update may address this issue. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

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Weaknesses (1)

CWE-20

Improper Input Validation

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Mar 13, 2018
Updated Aug 5, 2024
Reserved Feb 21, 2018
Link CVE-2018-1000077
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Link CVE-2018-1000077
Red Hat
Severity Moderate
Public date Feb 15, 2018
Links CVE-2018-1000077 - Bugzilla
GHSA-GV86-43RV-79M2