CVE-2019-16201 (GCVE-0-2019-16201)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-11-26 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 01:10
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
WEBrick::HTTPAuth::DigestAuth in Ruby through 2.4.7, 2.5.x through 2.5.6, and 2.6.x through 2.6.4 has a regular expression Denial of Service cause by looping/backtracking. A victim must expose a WEBrick server that uses DigestAuth to the Internet or a untrusted network.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
11 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://hackerone.com/reports/661722 | |
| https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019… | |
| https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019… | mailing-list |
| https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/31 | mailing-list |
| https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/32 | mailing-list |
| https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4587 | vendor-advisory |
| https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2020.html | |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-06 | vendor-advisory |
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… | vendor-advisory |
| https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020… | mailing-list |
| https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023… | mailing-list |
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