CVE-2007-5162

El método connect en lib/net/http.rb en las bibliotecas (1) Net::HTTP y (2) Net::HTTPS de Ruby 1.8.5 y 1.8.6 no verifica que el campo commonName (CN) en un certificado de servidor concuerde con el nombre de dominio de una petición HTTPS, lo cual facilita a atacantes remotos interceptar transmisiones SSL mediante un ataque de "hombre en medio" (man-in-the-middle) o sitio web falsificado.

Chris Clark discovered that Ruby's HTTPS module did not check for commonName mismatches early enough during SSL negotiation. If a remote attacker were able to perform man-in-the-middle attacks, this flaw could be exploited to view sensitive information in HTTPS requests coming from Ruby applications. It was discovered that Ruby's FTPTLS, telnets, and IMAPS modules did not check the commonName when performing SSL certificate checks. If a remote attacker were able to perform man-in-the-middle attacks, this flaw could be exploited to eavesdrop on encrypted communications from Ruby applications using these protocols.