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CVE-2017-10784

ruby: Escape sequence injection vulnerability in the Basic authentication of WEBrick

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.4

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

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 5.4
CVSS: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