CVE-2018-1000077

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-03-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

RubyGems version 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, prior to trunk revision 62422 contains a Improper Input Validation vulnerability in ruby gems specification homepage attribute that can result in a malicious gem could set an invalid homepage URL. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 2.7.6.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 7.0
rubygems: through 2.2.9; through 2.3.6; through 2.4.3; through 2.5.0

References

http://blog.rubygems.org/2018/02/15/2.7.6-released.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00036.html
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3729
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3730
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3731
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2028
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0542
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0591
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0663
https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/commit/feadefc2d351dcb95d6492f5ad17ebca546eb964
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00000.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00001.html

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