Vulnerability CVE-2005-1992
Published: 2005-06-20   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
The XMLRPC server in utils.rb for the ruby library (libruby) 1.8 sets an invalid default value that prevents "security protection" using handlers, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Yukihiro matsumoto -> RUBY 

 References:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/684913
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-core/5237
http://www2.ruby-lang.org/en/20050701.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14016
http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10819
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=315064
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-543.html
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_18_sr.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-748
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-312.shtml
http://www.auscert.org.au/5509
http://secunia.com/advisories/16920/
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Sep/msg00002.html
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