GHSA-xgv7-pqqh-h2w9HighCVSS 7.5
jruby-openssl gem for JRuby fails to do proper certificate validation
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
A security problem involving peer certificate verification was found where failed verification silently did nothing, making affected applications vulnerable to attackers. Attackers could lead a client application to believe that a secure connection to a rogue SSL server is legitimate. Attackers could also penetrate client-validated SSL server applications with a dummy certificate.
🎯 Affected products1
- rubygems/jruby-openssl:< 0.6
🔗 References (5)
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/jruby-openssl/CVE-2009-4123.yml
- http://jruby.org/2009/12/07/vulnerability-in-jruby-openssl
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-4123
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xgv7-pqqh-h2w9
- https://web.archive.org/web/20101213091125/http://jruby.org/2009/12/07/vulnerability-in-jruby-openssl