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CVE-2015-1828

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-10-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The Ruby http gem before 0.7.3 does not verify hostnames in SSL connections, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a man-in-the-middle-attack.

Affected products

• Http.Rb Project Http.Rb: through 0.7.2

References

• https://github.com/ruby/openssl/issues/8
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/httprb/jkb4oxwZjkU
• https://rubysec.com/advisories/http-CVE-2015-1828
• https://github.com/ruby/openssl/issues/8
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/httprb/jkb4oxwZjkU
• https://rubysec.com/advisories/http-CVE-2015-1828

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