CVE-2017-10784
ruby: Escape sequence injection vulnerability in the Basic authentication of WEBrick
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.0
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Published · September 14, 2017
Updated · June 28, 2026
Description
It was found that WEBrick did not sanitize all its log messages. If logs were printed in a terminal, an attacker could interact with the terminal via the use of escape sequences.
Statement
This issue affects the versions of ruby as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7, as well as the versions of rh-ruby22-ruby and rh-ruby23-ruby as shipped with Red Hat Software Collections 3. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Moderate security impact. A future update may address this issue. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.0 · 5.4CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
CWE-117 · Improper Output Neutralization for Logs