CVE-2009-4123
HIGH7.5EPSS 0.26%jruby-openssl gem for JRuby fails to do proper certificate validation
Published: 1/19/2023Modified: 2/16/2024
Also known as:GHSA-xgv7-pqqh-h2w9
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 packages (1)
- RubyGems/jruby-opensslfrom 0, < 0.6
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
References (6)
- ADVISORYhttps://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xgv7-pqqh-h2w9
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-4123
- WEBhttp://jruby.org/2009/12/07/vulnerability-in-jruby-openssl
- WEBhttps://github.com/jruby/jruby-openssl
- WEBhttps://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/jruby-openssl/CVE-2009-4123.yml
- WEBhttps://web.archive.org/web/20101213091125/http://jruby.org/2009/12/07/vulnerability-in-jruby-openssl