What is GHSA-573x-jhqh-jg36?

GHSA-573x-jhqh-jg36 is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with High severity. Improper Certificate Validation in chloride

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-573x-jhqh-jg36 cover?

GHSA-573x-jhqh-jg36 covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2018-6517. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-573x-jhqh-jg36?

GHSA-573x-jhqh-jg36 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.5, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

Which products are affected by GHSA-573x-jhqh-jg36?

GHSA-573x-jhqh-jg36 affects 1 product, including: rubygems/chloride:\u003c 0.3.0.

GHSA-573x-jhqh-jg36HighCVSS 7.5

Improper Certificate Validation in chloride

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

March 25, 2019

Last Modified

November 4, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2018-6517 →

📋 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 products1

rubygems/chloride:< 0.3.0

🔗 References (5)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6517
https://web.archive.org/web/20201001014342/https://puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6517
https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/chloride/CVE-2018-6517.yml
https://puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6517
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-573x-jhqh-jg36