CVE-2018-16396

Public on 2018-11-16
Modified on 2020-08-12
Description
An issue was discovered in Ruby before 2.3.8, 2.4.x before 2.4.5, 2.5.x before 2.5.2, and 2.6.x before 2.6.0-preview3. It does not taint strings that result from unpacking tainted strings with some formats.
Severity
Medium severity
Medium
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.9
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 2 - Core ruby 2019-08-23 ALAS2-2019-1276 Fixed
Amazon Linux 1 ruby20 2020-08-10 ALAS-2020-1416 Fixed
Amazon Linux 1 ruby23 2018-12-06 ALAS-2018-1113 Fixed
Amazon Linux 1 ruby24 2018-12-06 ALAS-2018-1113 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 5.9 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 8.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H