ASA-202106-14: ruby-bundler: insufficient validation
Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-202106-14
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Severity: Medium
Date : 2021-06-01
CVE-ID : CVE-2020-36327
Package : ruby-bundler
Type : insufficient validation
Remote : Yes
Link : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-1891
Summary
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The package ruby-bundler before version 2.2.18-1 is vulnerable to
insufficient validation.
Resolution
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Upgrade to 2.2.18-1.
# pacman -Syu "ruby-bundler>=2.2.18-1"
The problem has been fixed upstream in version 2.2.18.
Workaround
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None.
Description
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Bundler 1.16.0 through 2.2.9 and 2.2.11 through 2.2.17 sometimes
chooses a dependency source based on the highest gem version number,
which means that a rogue gem found at a public source may be chosen,
even if the intended choice was a private gem that is a dependency of
another private gem that is explicitly depended on by the application.
Impact
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A remote attacker could replace a private gem in a project with a
public gem under their control with a higher version number.
References
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https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/issues/3982
https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/pull/4609
https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/commit/d68d3cdb9cc69f648f87e5d3f25881677c1179ea
https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2020-36327
A ruby-bundler security update has been released for Arch Linux.