jruby-openssl Gem for JRuby fails to do proper certificate validation
Published: December 07, 2009
SECURITY IDENTIFIERS
- CVE: CVE-2009-4123 (NVD)
- GHSA: GHSA-xgv7-pqqh-h2w9
- Vendor Advisory: http://jruby.org/2009/12/07/vulnerability-in-jruby-openssl
GEM
PLATFORM
SEVERITY
CVSS v3.x: 7.5 (High)
PATCHED VERSIONS
>= 0.6
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.
