CVE-2018-6517 Improper Certificate Validation in chloride
HighCVSS 7.5
EPSS 0.89%
PoC
- Published
- Updated
- Exploit status
- Proof-of-concept only
Description
Prior to version 0.3.0, chloride's use of net-ssh resulted in host fingerprints for previously unknown hosts getting added to the user's known_hosts file without confirmation. In version 0.3.0 this is updated so that the user's known_hosts file is not updated by chloride.
Affected products
| Product | Affected versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| rubygems chloride(RubyGems) | < 0.3.0 | 0.3.0 |
| rubygems chloride(RubyGems) | = 0.1.0 | No fix listed |
| rubygems chloride(RubyGems) | = 0.2.0 | No fix listed |
| rubygems chloride(RubyGems) | = 0.2.2 | No fix listed |
| rubygems chloride(RubyGems) | = 0.2.3 | No fix listed |
| puppet chloride | < 0.3.0 | 0.3.0 |
| puppet chloride | = prior to 0.3.0 | No fix listed |
References
- nvd.nist.gov third-party-advisory vendor-advisory
- web.archive.org
- github.com exploit
- puppet.com third-party-advisory
- github.com