Bug 1561949 (CVE-2018-8780)

Summary: CVE-2018-8780 ruby: Unintentional directory traversal by poisoned NULL byte in Dir
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Adam Mariš <amaris>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecifiedCC: bkearney, cbillett, ccoleman, cpelland, dajohnso, dedgar, dmcphers, gblomqui, gmccullo, gtanzill, hhorak, hhudgeon, jaruga, jfrey, jgoulding, jhardy, jorton, jprause, kyoshida, mtasaka, obarenbo, pvalena, roliveri, ruby-maint, simaishi, s, strzibny, tomckay, vanmeeuwen+fedora, vondruch
Target Milestone: ---Keywords: Security
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: ruby 2.2.10, ruby 2.3.7, ruby 2.4.4, ruby 2.5.1 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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It was found that the methods from the Dir class did not properly handle strings containing the NULL byte. An attacker, able to inject NULL bytes in a path, could possibly trigger an unspecified behavior of the ruby script.
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Last Closed: 2019-06-10 10:19:07 UTC Type: ---
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oVirt Team: --- RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On: 1561956, 1561957, 1561958, 1563873, 1563874, 1565258, 1568494, 1568495, 1568496, 1568497, 1568498, 1651798, 1652037, 1652038, 1785435, 1785436, 1785437    
Bug Blocks: 1561954    

Description Adam Mariš 2018-03-29 09:08:00 UTC
Dir.open, Dir.new, Dir.entries and Dir.empty? accept the path of the target directory as their parameter. If the parameter contains NUL (\0) bytes, these methods recognize that the path is completed before the NUL bytes. So, if a script accepts an external input as the argument of these methods, the attacker can make the unintentional directory traversal.

Affected versions:

Ruby 2.2 series: 2.2.9 and earlier
Ruby 2.3 series: 2.3.6 and earlier
Ruby 2.4 series: 2.4.3 and earlier
Ruby 2.5 series: 2.5.0 and earlier

External References:

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2018/03/28/poisoned-nul-byte-dir-cve-2018-8780/

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2018-03-29 09:16:38 UTC
Created ruby tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1561957]

Comment 10 Eric Christensen 2018-04-17 19:04:54 UTC
Mitigation:

It is possible to test for presence of the NULL byte manually prior to call a Dir method with an untrusted string.

Comment 11 Cedric Buissart 2018-04-18 07:43:34 UTC
Upstream fix : 
https://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=revision&revision=62989

Comment 16 Andrej Nemec 2018-05-14 15:26:03 UTC
Statement:

This issue affects the versions of ruby as shipped with Red Hat CloudForms 4. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having security impact of Moderate. A future update may address this issue. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

This issue affects the versions of ruby as shipped with Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having security impact of Moderate. A future update may address this issue. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

Comment 17 Jun Aruga 2018-11-15 19:19:20 UTC
Upstream patch:

> Affected versions:

trunk branch: (r62989)
https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/bd5661a3cbb38a8c3a3ea10cd76c88bbef7871b8

> Ruby 2.2 series: 2.2.9 and earlier

ruby_2_2 branch:
https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/143eb22f1877815dd802f7928959c5f93d4c7bb3

> Ruby 2.3 series: 2.3.6 and earlier
> Ruby 2.4 series: 2.4.3 and earlier
> Ruby 2.5 series: 2.5.0 and earlier

Search ruby_2_X branches by "dir.c: check NUL bytes".

Comment 20 errata-xmlrpc 2018-11-29 09:56:37 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 7
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 EUS

Via RHSA-2018:3729 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3729

Comment 21 errata-xmlrpc 2018-11-29 10:11:08 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 7
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 EUS

Via RHSA-2018:3730 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3730

Comment 22 errata-xmlrpc 2018-11-29 10:22:29 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 EUS

Via RHSA-2018:3731 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3731

Comment 23 errata-xmlrpc 2019-08-06 12:03:51 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2019:2028 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2028

Comment 25 errata-xmlrpc 2020-02-18 14:43:33 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2020:0542 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0542

Comment 28 errata-xmlrpc 2020-02-25 12:10:40 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Advanced Update Support
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Update Services for SAP Solutions
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Telco Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2020:0591 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0591

Comment 29 errata-xmlrpc 2020-03-03 15:17:38 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2020:0663 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0663