Bug 1058595 (CVE-2014-0036)

Summary: CVE-2014-0036 rubygem-rbovirt: unsafe use of rest-client
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Garth Mollett <gmollett>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: bdunne, bkearney, cpelland, dajohnso, dcleal, jfrey, jrafanie, jrusnack, kseifried, mmccune, obarenbo, ohadlevy, security-response-team, vkrizan, vondruch, xlecauch
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Bug Depends On: 1066819, 1073189, 1073190    
Bug Blocks: 1058596    
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a patch that fixes the issue.
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always verify peer certificate on https none

Description Garth Mollett 2014-01-28 06:11:30 UTC 
Michael Samuel of Amcom reported that the rbovirt rubygem makes unsafe usage of the rest-client gem.
HTTPS requests are sent with SSL verification disabled which could make applications making use of rbovirt vulnerable to MITM attacks.
Comment 1 Garth Mollett 2014-02-19 07:23:21 UTC 
Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank Michael Samuel of Amcom for reporting this issue.
Comment 3 Amos Benari 2014-02-24 15:22:41 UTC 
Created attachment 866995 [details]
a patch that fixes the issue.
Comment 4 Amos Benari 2014-03-02 12:51:14 UTC 
Created attachment 869621 [details]
always verify peer certificate on https
Comment 5 Garth Mollett 2014-03-06 01:24:56 UTC 
Created rubygem-rbovirt tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1073189]
Affects: epel-6 [bug 1073190]
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2014-03-15 15:18:00 UTC 
rubygem-rbovirt-0.0.18-4.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2014-03-15 15:23:28 UTC 
rubygem-rbovirt-0.0.18-4.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2014-03-21 22:32:39 UTC 
rubygem-rbovirt-0.0.6-2.el6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.