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USN-4922-1: Ruby vulnerability

Severity

Medium

Vendor

Canonical Ubuntu

Versions Affected

  • Canonical Ubuntu 18.04

Description

Juho Nurminen discovered that the REXML gem bundled with Ruby incorrectly parsed and serialized XML documents. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform an XML round-trip attack.

CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2021-28965.

Affected Cloud Foundry Products and Versions

Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.

  • cflinuxfs3
    • All versions prior to 0.236.0
  • CF Deployment
    • All versions prior to 16.13.0

Mitigation

Users of affected products are strongly encouraged to follow the mitigations below. The Cloud Foundry project recommends upgrading the following releases:

  • cflinuxfs3
    • Upgrade all versions to 0.236.0 or greater
  • CF Deployment
    • Upgrade all versions to 16.13.0 or greater

History

2021-04-29: Initial vulnerability report published.

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