Security Advisory

CVE-2015-3900

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2015-06-24 14:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 05:56:16
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

RubyGems 2.0.x before 2.0.16, 2.2.x before 2.2.4, and 2.4.x before 2.4.7 does not validate the hostname when fetching gems or making API requests, which allows remote attackers to redirect requests to arbitrary domains via a crafted DNS SRV record, aka a "DNS hijack attack."