CVE-2015-3900 (GCVE-0-2015-3900)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-06-24 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 05:56
VLAI
Summary
RubyGems 2.0.x before 2.0.16, 2.2.x before 2.2.4, and 2.4.x before 2.4.7 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, aka a "DNS hijack attack."
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2262 records in the last 180 days details
References
Date Public
2015-05-14 00:00
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