Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Informations
Name CVE-2017-0898 First vendor Publication 2017-09-15
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2018-07-15

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Overall CVSS Score 9.1
Base Score 9.1 Environmental Score 9.1
impact SubScore 5.2 Temporal Score 9.1
Exploitabality Sub Score 3.9
 
Attack Vector Network Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged Confidentiality Impact High
Integrity Impact None Availability Impact High
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.4 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 4.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Ruby before 2.4.2, 2.3.5, and 2.2.8 is vulnerable to a malicious format string which contains a precious specifier (*) with a huge minus value. Such situation can lead to a buffer overrun, resulting in a heap memory corruption or an information disclosure from the heap.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-0898

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-134 Uncontrolled Format String (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 15

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2018-10-31 Name : The remote host is missing a macOS or Mac OS X security update that fixes mul...
File : macosx_SecUpd2018-005.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-09-18 Name : The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing multiple security updates.
File : EulerOS_SA-2018-1248.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-08-17 Name : The remote PhotonOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : PhotonOS_PHSA-2017-0037.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-07-17 Name : The remote host is missing a macOS or Mac OS X security update that fixes mul...
File : macosx_SecUpd2018-004.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-07-17 Name : The remote host is missing a macOS update that fixes multiple security vulner...
File : macos_10_13_6.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-07-16 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1421.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-03-20 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : EulerOS_SA-2018-1067.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-03-20 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : EulerOS_SA-2018-1066.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-03-12 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2018-0378.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-01-15 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2017-4166994614.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-11-13 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-4031.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-10-27 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2017-915.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-10-18 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201710-18.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-10-06 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-3439-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-10-03 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2017-906.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-09-27 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1114.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-09-27 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1113.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-09-20 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_95b013799d5211e7a25c471bafc3262f.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-09-19 Name : The remote Slackware host is missing a security update.
File : Slackware_SSA_2017-261-03.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
BID http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100862
DEBIAN https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4031
GENTOO https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-18
MISC https://github.com/mruby/mruby/issues/3722
https://hackerone.com/reports/212241
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2017/09/14/sprintf-buffer-underrun-cve-2017...
MLIST https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00012.html
REDHAT https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3485
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0378
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0583
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0585
SECTRACK http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039363
UBUNTU https://usn.ubuntu.com/3685-1/

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