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CVE-2012-2126 (GCVE-0-2012-2126)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-10-01 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 19:26
VLAI
Summary
RubyGems before 1.8.23 does not verify an SSL certificate, which allows remote attackers to modify a gem during installation via a man-in-the-middle attack.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1582-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=814718 x_refsource_MISC
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/0… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
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http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1441.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Date Public
2012-04-19 00:00
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Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.


Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.