In RubyGem excon before 0.71.0, there was a race condition around persistent connections, where a connection which is interrupted (such as by a timeout) would leave data on the socket. Subsequent req…
Medium CVSS 5.8
Summary
In RubyGem excon before 0.71.0, there was a race condition around persistent connections, where a connection which is interrupted (such as by a timeout) would leave data on the socket. Subsequent requests would then read this data, returning content from the previous response. The race condition window appears to be short, and it would be difficult to purposefully exploit this.
In-depth triage · Auto channel
No in-depth report has been generated yet (DR-003 v2 AI pipeline is under construction).
Affected products
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Lint boundary warnings (4)
The following non-blocking warnings were raised during the lint phase of this triage (e.g. reference URLs not yet on the allowlist). They do not affect entry usability and are disclosed for transparency (see DR-002).
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REF_URL_NOT_ALLOWLISTEDurl not in allowlist: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00021.html -
REF_URL_NOT_ALLOWLISTEDurl not in allowlist: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00062.html -
REF_URL_NOT_ALLOWLISTEDurl not in allowlist: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00021.html -
REF_URL_NOT_ALLOWLISTEDurl not in allowlist: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00062.html
Sources
- NVD DATABASE
Original Links
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00021.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00062.html Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/excon/excon/commit/ccb57d7a422f020dc74f1de4e8fb505ab46d8a29 Patch
- https://github.com/excon/excon/security/advisories/GHSA-q58g-455p-8vw9 Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/01/msg00015.html Mailing List
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00021.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00062.html Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/excon/excon/commit/ccb57d7a422f020dc74f1de4e8fb505ab46d8a29 Patch
- https://github.com/excon/excon/security/advisories/GHSA-q58g-455p-8vw9 Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/01/msg00015.html Mailing List
Timeline
- nvd_ingest NVD