Bug 1487590 (CVE-2017-0899)

Summary: CVE-2017-0899 rubygems: Escape sequence in the "summary" field of gemspec
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Adam Mariš <amaris>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Priority: low    
Version: unspecifiedCC: bcourt, bhu, bkearney, cbillett, ccoleman, dedgar, dmcphers, esammons, hhorak, iboverma, jgoulding, jmatthew, jorton, jross, kseifried, mastahnke, matt, mcressma, mmccune, mrike, mtasaka, ohadlevy, ruby-maint, s, tjay, tomckay, tsanders, vanmeeuwen+fedora, vondruch, williams
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: rubygems 2.6.13, ruby 2.4.2, ruby 2.2.8, ruby 2.3.5 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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A vulnerability was found where rubygems did not properly sanitize gems' specification text. A specially crafted gem could interact with the terminal via the use of escape sequences.
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Last Closed: 2017-12-20 09:42:21 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 1487591, 1487592, 1487593, 1502049, 1509448, 1509449, 1509450, 1509451, 1534437, 1534438, 1534937, 1534941    
Bug Blocks: 1487526, 1487605    

Description Adam Mariš 2017-09-01 10:55:53 UTC
RubyGems version 2.6.12 and earlier is vulnerable to maliciously
crafted gem specifications that include terminal escape characters.
Printing the gem specification would execute terminal escape
sequences.

Upstream patches:

https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/commit/1bcbc7fe637b03145401ec9c094066285934a7f1
https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/commit/ef0aa611effb5f54d40c7fba6e8235eb43c5a491

Bug report:

https://hackerone.com/reports/226335

External References:

http://blog.rubygems.org/2017/08/27/2.6.13-released.html

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2017-09-01 11:02:06 UTC
Created ruby193-rubygems tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: openshift-1 [bug 1487592]


Created rubygems tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1487591]
Affects: openshift-1 [bug 1487593]

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2017-12-19 08:38:21 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 EUS

Via RHSA-2017:3485 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3485

Comment 7 Cedric Buissart 2017-12-20 09:42:40 UTC
Statement:

This issue affects the versions of ruby as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, and 7 and the versions of rh-ruby22-ruby and rh-ruby23-ruby as shipped with Red Hat Software Collections. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Low security impact. A future update may address this issue. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2018-02-28 20:02:18 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2018:0378 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0378

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2018-03-26 09:44:48 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 EUS

Via RHSA-2018:0583 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0583

Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2018-03-26 10:22:56 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 EUS

Via RHSA-2018:0585 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0585