CVE-2019-16201
Published: 20 November 2019
WEBrick::HTTPAuth::DigestAuth in Ruby through 2.4.7, 2.5.x through 2.5.6, and 2.6.x through 2.6.4 has a regular expression Denial of Service cause by looping/backtracking. A victim must expose a WEBrick server that uses DigestAuth to the Internet or a untrusted network.
From the Ubuntu security team
It was discovered that WEBrick as provided by JRuby was vulnerable to a denial of service attack due to catastrophic backtracking in certain regular expressions. An attacker could use this vulnerability to cause JRuby to consume system resources.
Priority
Medium
CVSS 3 base score: 7.5
Status
| Package | Release | Status |
|---|---|---|
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jruby Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
Upstream |
Needs triage
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| Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo) |
Needed
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| Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) |
Needed
|
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| Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) |
Needed
|
|
| Ubuntu 16.04 ESM (Xenial Xerus) |
Ignored
(end of standard support, was needed)
|
|
| Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr) |
Needed
|
|
|
ruby2.3 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
Upstream |
Needs triage
|
| Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo) |
Does not exist
|
|
| Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) |
Does not exist
|
|
| Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) |
Does not exist
|
|
| Ubuntu 16.04 ESM (Xenial Xerus) |
Released
(2.3.1-2~ubuntu16.04.14)
|
|
| Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr) |
Does not exist
|
|
|
ruby2.5 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
Upstream |
Released
(2.5.7-1)
|
| Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo) |
Does not exist
|
|
| Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) |
Does not exist
|
|
| Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) |
Released
(2.5.1-1ubuntu1.6)
|
|
| Ubuntu 16.04 ESM (Xenial Xerus) |
Does not exist
|
|
| Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr) |
Does not exist
|
|
|
Patches: Upstream: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/36e057e26ef2104bc2349799d6c52d22bb1c7d03 (master) Upstream: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/05cdcdc6ec7f0777ba56100308e54e97e277293f (2.5.x) |
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