The JSON gem before 1.5.5, 1.6.x before 1.6.8, and 1.7.x before 1.7.7 for Ruby allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) or bypass the mass assignment protection mechanism via a crafted JSON document that triggers the creation of arbitrary Ruby symbols or certain internal objects, as demonstrated by conducting a SQL injection attack against Ruby on Rails, aka "Unsafe Object Creation Vulnerability."

The version of tested product installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS-2020-1422 advisory.

  - jQuery before 1.9.0 is vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) attacks. The jQuery(strInput) function     does not differentiate selectors from HTML in a reliable fashion. In vulnerable versions, jQuery     determined whether the input was HTML by looking for the '<' character anywhere in the string, giving     attackers more flexibility when attempting to construct a malicious payload. In fixed versions, jQuery     only deems the input to be HTML if it explicitly starts with the '<' character, limiting exploitability     only to attackers who can control the beginning of a string, which is far less common. (CVE-2012-6708)

  - The JSON gem before 1.5.5, 1.6.x before 1.6.8, and 1.7.x before 1.7.7 for Ruby allows remote attackers to     cause a denial of service (resource consumption) or bypass the mass assignment protection mechanism via a     crafted JSON document that triggers the creation of arbitrary Ruby symbols or certain internal objects, as     demonstrated by conducting a SQL injection attack against Ruby on Rails, aka Unsafe Object Creation     Vulnerability. (CVE-2013-0269)

  - jQuery before 3.0.0 is vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) attacks when a cross-domain Ajax request     is performed without the dataType option, causing text/javascript responses to be executed.
    (CVE-2015-9251)

  - 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. (CVE-2017-17742)

  - Ruby through 2.4.7, 2.5.x through 2.5.6, and 2.6.x through 2.6.4 mishandles path checking within     File.fnmatch functions. (CVE-2019-15845)

  - WEBrick::HTTPAuth::DigestAuth in Ruby through 2.4.7, 2.5.x through 2.5.6, and 2.6.x through 2.6.4 has a     regular expression Denial of Service cause by looping/backtracking. A victim must expose a WEBrick server     that uses DigestAuth to the Internet or a untrusted network. (CVE-2019-16201)

  - Ruby through 2.4.7, 2.5.x through 2.5.6, and 2.6.x through 2.6.4 allows HTTP Response Splitting. If a     program using WEBrick inserts untrusted input into the response header, an attacker can exploit it to     insert a newline character to split a header, and inject malicious content to deceive clients. NOTE: this     issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2017-17742, which addressed the CRLF vector, but did not     address an isolated CR or an isolated LF. (CVE-2019-16254)

  - Ruby through 2.4.7, 2.5.x through 2.5.6, and 2.6.x through 2.6.4 allows code injection if the first     argument (aka the command argument) to Shell#[] or Shell#test in lib/shell.rb is untrusted data. An     attacker can exploit this to call an arbitrary Ruby method. (CVE-2019-16255)

  - The JSON gem through 2.2.0 for Ruby, as used in Ruby 2.4 through 2.4.9, 2.5 through 2.5.7, and 2.6 through     2.6.5, has an Unsafe Object Creation Vulnerability. This is quite similar to CVE-2013-0269, but does not     rely on poor garbage-collection behavior within Ruby. Specifically, use of JSON parsing methods can lead     to creation of a malicious object within the interpreter, with adverse effects that are application-     dependent. (CVE-2020-10663)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of tested product installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS-2020-1426 advisory.

  - The JSON gem before 1.5.5, 1.6.x before 1.6.8, and 1.7.x before 1.7.7 for Ruby allows remote attackers to     cause a denial of service (resource consumption) or bypass the mass assignment protection mechanism via a     crafted JSON document that triggers the creation of arbitrary Ruby symbols or certain internal objects, as     demonstrated by conducting a SQL injection attack against Ruby on Rails, aka Unsafe Object Creation     Vulnerability. (CVE-2013-0269)

  - The JSON gem through 2.2.0 for Ruby, as used in Ruby 2.4 through 2.4.9, 2.5 through 2.5.7, and 2.6 through     2.6.5, has an Unsafe Object Creation Vulnerability. This is quite similar to CVE-2013-0269, but does not     rely on poor garbage-collection behavior within Ruby. Specifically, use of JSON parsing methods can lead     to creation of a malicious object within the interpreter, with adverse effects that are application-     dependent. (CVE-2020-10663)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of tested product installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS-2020-1423 advisory.

  - The JSON gem before 1.5.5, 1.6.x before 1.6.8, and 1.7.x before 1.7.7 for Ruby allows remote attackers to     cause a denial of service (resource consumption) or bypass the mass assignment protection mechanism via a     crafted JSON document that triggers the creation of arbitrary Ruby symbols or certain internal objects, as     demonstrated by conducting a SQL injection attack against Ruby on Rails, aka Unsafe Object Creation     Vulnerability. (CVE-2013-0269)

  - The JSON gem through 2.2.0 for Ruby, as used in Ruby 2.4 through 2.4.9, 2.5 through 2.5.7, and 2.6 through     2.6.5, has an Unsafe Object Creation Vulnerability. This is quite similar to CVE-2013-0269, but does not     rely on poor garbage-collection behavior within Ruby. Specifically, use of JSON parsing methods can lead     to creation of a malicious object within the interpreter, with adverse effects that are application-     dependent. (CVE-2020-10663)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Updated ruby193-ruby, rubygem-json and rubygem-rdoc packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 1.1.3.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It has features to process text files and to do system management tasks.

A flaw in rubygem-json and ruby193-rubygem-json allowed remote attacks by creating different types of malicious objects. For example, it could initiate a denial of service attack through resource consumption by using a JSON document to create arbitrary Ruby symbols, which were never garbage collected. It could also be exploited to create internal objects which could allow a SQL injection attack. (CVE-2013-0269)

It was found that documentation created by rubygem-rdoc and ruby193-rubygem-rdoc was vulnerable to a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. If such documentation was accessible over a network, and a remote attacker could trick a user into visiting a specially crafted URL, it would lead to arbitrary web script execution in the context of the user's session. As rubygem-rdoc and ruby193-rubygem-rdoc are used for creating documentation for Ruby source files (such as classes, modules, and so on), it is not a common scenario to make such documentation accessible over the network. (CVE-2013-0256)

Red Hat would like to thank Ruby on Rails upstream for reporting CVE-2013-0269, and Eric Hodel of RDoc upstream for reporting CVE-2013-0256. Upstream acknowledges Thomas Hollstegge of Zweitag and Ben Murphy as the original reporters of CVE-2013-0269, and Evgeny Ermakov as the original reporter of CVE-2013-0256.

Users of Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 1.1.3 are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which correct these issues.

Two vulnerabilities were identified in the Ruby language interpreter, version 1.9.1.

CVE-2012-5371

Jean-Philippe Aumasson identified that Ruby computed hash values without properly restricting the ability to trigger hash collisions predictably, allowing context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption). This is a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-4815.

CVE-2013-0269

Thomas Hollstegge and Ben Murphy found that the JSON gem for Ruby allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) or bypass the mass assignment protection mechanism via a crafted JSON document that triggers the creation of arbitrary Ruby symbols or certain internal objects.

For the squeeze distribution, theses vulnerabilities have been fixed in version 1.9.2.0-2+deb6u5 of ruby1.9.1. We recommend that you upgrade your ruby1.9.1 package.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The JSON gem for Ruby allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) or bypass the mass assignment protection mechanism via a crafted JSON document that triggers the creation of arbitrary Ruby symbols or certain internal objects, as demonstrated by conducting a SQL injection attack against Ruby on Rails, aka 'Unsafe Object Creation Vulnerability.'

For Debian 6 'Squeeze', this issue has been fixed in libjson-ruby version 1.1.9-1+deb6u1.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201412-27 (Ruby: Denial of Service)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Ruby. Please review the       CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
  Impact :

    A context-dependent attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with       the privileges of the process, cause a Denial of Service condition, or       bypass security restrictions.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

Ruby 1.8 was updated to fix a XML entity expansion denial of service attack (CVE-2013-1821)

Ruby 1.9 was updated to 1.9.3 p392, fixing the same security issues and also :

  - update json intree to 1.5.5: Denial of Service and     Unsafe Object Creation Vulnerability in JSON     CVE-2013-0269

  - limit entity expansion text limit to 10kB CVE-2013-1821

  - get rid of a SEGV when calling rb_iter_break() from some     extention libraries.

  - some warning suppressed and smaller fixes

The remote Mac OS X host has a version of OS X Server installed that is prior to 3.0. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - A denial of service vulnerability exists in the     included JSON Ruby Gem, which can be abused to exhaust     all available memory resources. (CVE-2013-0269)

  - Multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities exist in     the included Ruby on Rails software. (CVE-2013-1854 /     CVE-2013-1855 / CVE-2013-1856 / CVE-2013-1857)

  - A buffer overflow exists in the included FreeRADIUS     software that can be triggered when parsing the 'not     after' timestamp in a client certificate when using     TLS-based EAP methods. (CVE-2012-3547)

  - A logic issue exists whereby the RADIUS service could     choose an incorrect certificate from a list of     configured certificates.

New ruby packages are available for Slackware 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, and
-current to fix security issues.

A security flaw was discovered on the previous json that there is a denial of service and unsafe object creation vulnerability. This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2013-0269.

This new rpm will fix this issue.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Jean-Philippe Aumasson discovered that Ruby incorrectly generated predictable hash values. An attacker could use this issue to generate hash collisions and cause a denial of service. (CVE-2012-5371)

Evgeny Ermakov discovered that documentation generated by rdoc is vulnerable to a cross-site scripting issue. With cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, if a user were tricked into viewing a specially crafted page, a remote attacker could exploit this to modify the contents, or steal confidential data, within the same domain.
(CVE-2013-0256)

Thomas Hollstegge and Ben Murphy discovered that the JSON implementation in Ruby incorrectly handled certain crafted documents.
An attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of service or bypass certain protection mechanisms. (CVE-2013-0269).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Aaron Patterson reports :

When parsing certain JSON documents, the JSON gem can be coerced in to creating Ruby symbols in a target system. Since Ruby symbols are not garbage collected, this can result in a denial of service attack.

The same technique can be used to create objects in a target system that act like internal objects. These 'act alike' objects can be used to bypass certain security mechanisms and can be used as a spring board for SQL injection attacks in Ruby on Rails.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
140096	Amazon Linux AMI : ruby24 (ALAS-2020-1422)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
140094	Amazon Linux AMI : ruby19 (ALAS-2020-1426)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
140093	Amazon Linux AMI : rubygem-json-debuginfo (ALAS-2020-1423)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
119437	RHEL 6 : ruby193-ruby, rubygem-json and rubygem-rdoc (RHSA-2013:0701)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
84494	Debian DLA-263-1 : ruby1.9.1 security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
83167	Debian DLA-215-1 : libjson-ruby security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
79980	GLSA-201412-27 : Ruby: Denial of Service	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	high
74955	openSUSE Security Update : ruby (openSUSE-SU-2013:0603-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
70590	Mac OS X : OS X Server < 3.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	high
65583	Slackware 13.1 / 13.37 / 14.0 / current : ruby (SSA:2013-075-01)	Nessus	Slackware Local Security Checks	high
65040	Fedora 18 : rubygem-json-1.6.8-1.fc18 (2013-3052)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
65039	Fedora 17 : rubygem-json-1.6.8-1.fc17 (2013-3050)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
64799	Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 12.10 : ruby1.9.1 vulnerabilities (USN-1733-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
64652	FreeBSD : Ruby -- Denial of Service and Unsafe Object Creation Vulnerability in JSON (c79eb109-a754-45d7-b552-a42099eb2265)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	high

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