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CVE-2017-17742

Published: 3 April 2018

Ruby before 2.2.10, 2.3.x before 2.3.7, 2.4.x before 2.4.4, 2.5.x before 2.5.1, and 2.6.0-preview1 allows an HTTP Response Splitting attack. An attacker can inject a crafted key and value into an HTTP response for the HTTP server of WEBrick.

From the Ubuntu Security Team

It was discovered that JRuby mishandled newline characters in HTTP response headers. A remote attacker could use this vulnerability to display malicious content to HTTP clients.

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.3

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
jruby
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Needed

cosmic Ignored
(end of life)
disco Ignored
(end of life)
eoan Ignored
(end of life, was needed)
focal Needed

groovy Ignored
(end of life)
hirsute Ignored
(end of life)
impish Ignored
(end of life)
lunar Ignored
(end of life, was needs-triage)
mantic Needs triage

noble Needs triage

trusty
Released (1.5.6-9+deb8u2build0.14.04.1~esm2)
Available with Ubuntu Pro or Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
upstream Needs triage

xenial Needed

ruby1.9.1
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
artful Does not exist

bionic Does not exist

focal Does not exist

groovy Does not exist

hirsute Does not exist

impish Does not exist

jammy Does not exist

kinetic Does not exist

lunar Does not exist

mantic Does not exist

noble Does not exist

trusty
Released (1.9.3.484-2ubuntu1.12)
upstream Needs triage

xenial Does not exist

ruby2.0
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
artful Does not exist

bionic Does not exist

focal Does not exist

groovy Does not exist

hirsute Does not exist

impish Does not exist

jammy Does not exist

kinetic Does not exist

lunar Does not exist

mantic Does not exist

noble Does not exist

trusty
Released (2.0.0.484-1ubuntu2.10)
upstream Needs triage

xenial Does not exist

ruby2.3
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
artful
Released (2.3.3-1ubuntu1.6)
bionic Does not exist

focal Does not exist

groovy Does not exist

hirsute Does not exist

impish Does not exist

jammy Does not exist

kinetic Does not exist

lunar Does not exist

mantic Does not exist

noble Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

xenial
Released (2.3.1-2~16.04.10)
ruby2.5
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
artful Does not exist

bionic
Released (2.5.1-1)
focal Does not exist

groovy Does not exist

hirsute Does not exist

impish Does not exist

jammy Does not exist

kinetic Does not exist

lunar Does not exist

mantic Does not exist

noble Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

xenial Does not exist

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.3
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact Low
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N