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Improper Certificate Validation in chloride

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Mar 25, 2019 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Nov 4, 2023

Package

bundler chloride (RubyGems)

Affected versions

< 0.3.0

Patched versions

0.3.0

Description

Prior to version 0.3.0, chloride's use of net-ssh resulted in host fingerprints for previously unknown hosts getting added to the user's known_hosts file without confirmation. In version 0.3.0 this is updated so that the user's known_hosts file is not updated by chloride.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Mar 21, 2019
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Mar 25, 2019
Reviewed Jun 16, 2020
Last updated Nov 4, 2023

Severity

High
7.5
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2018-6517

GHSA ID

GHSA-573x-jhqh-jg36

Source code

No known source code
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