An issue was discovered in the OpenSSL library in Ruby before 2.3.8, 2.4.x before 2.4.5, 2.5.x before 2.5.2, and 2.6.x before 2.6.0-preview3. When two OpenSSL::X509::Name objects are compared using ==, depending on the ordering, non-equal objects may return true. When the first argument is one character longer than the second, or the second argument contains a character that is one less than a character in the same position of the first argument, the result of == will be true. This could be leveraged to create an illegitimate certificate that may be accepted as legitimate and then used in signing or encryption operations.
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
Find out more about CVE-2018-16395 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
Subscription Asset Manager is now in a reduced support phase receiving only Critical impact security fixes. This issue has been rated as having a security impact of Important, and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates.
Red Hat Virtualization includes a vulnerable version of ruby, however the affected functionality is not used in Red Hat Virtualization or any of its dependencies. A future update may address this issue.
| CVSS3 Base Score | 7.5 |
|---|---|
| CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
| Attack Vector | Network |
| Attack Complexity | Low |
| Privileges Required | None |
| User Interaction | None |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | None |
| Integrity Impact | High |
| Availability Impact | None |
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (rh-ruby24-ruby) | RHSA-2018:3730 | 2018-11-29 |
| Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (rh-ruby23-ruby) | RHSA-2018:3729 | 2018-11-29 |
| Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (rh-ruby23-ruby) | RHSA-2018:3729 | 2018-11-29 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (ruby) | RHSA-2018:3738 | 2018-11-29 |
| Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (rh-ruby24-ruby) | RHSA-2018:3730 | 2018-11-29 |
| Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (rh-ruby25-ruby) | RHSA-2018:3731 | 2018-11-29 |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Virtualization 4 | ruby | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1 | ruby193 | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | ruby | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | ruby | Will not fix |
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