CVE-2017-0902

RubyGems 2.6.12 y anteriores es vulnerable a secuestro de DNS, lo que permite a un atacante Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) forzar el cliente RubyGems a que descargue e instale gemas desde un servidor que está bajo el control del atacante.

A vulnerability was found where rubygems did not sanitize DNS responses when requesting the hostname of the rubygems server for a domain, via a _rubygems._tcp DNS SRV query. An attacker with the ability to manipulate DNS responses could direct the gem command towards a different domain.

Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It has features to process text files and to perform system management tasks. Security Fix: It was discovered that the Net::FTP module did not properly process filenames in combination with certain operations. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to execute arbitrary commands by setting up a malicious FTP server and tricking a user or Ruby application into downloading files with specially crafted names using the Net::FTP module.