6.5
CVSSv3

CVE-2021-43840

Published: 17/12/2021 Updated: 29/12/2021
CVSS v2 Base Score: 3.5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 6.8
CVSS v3 Base Score: 6.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 2.8
VMScore: 312
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Summary

message_bus is a messaging bus for Ruby processes and web clients. In versions before 3.3.7 users who deployed message bus with diagnostics features enabled (default off) are vulnerable to a path traversal bug, which could lead to disclosure of secret information on a machine if an unintended user were to gain access to the diagnostic route. The impact is also greater if there is no proxy for your web application as the number of steps up the directories is not bounded. For deployments which uses a proxy, the impact varies. For example, If a request goes through a proxy like Nginx with `merge_slashes` enabled, the number of steps up the directories that can be read is limited to 3 levels. This issue has been patched in version 3.3.7. Users unable to upgrade should ensure that MessageBus::Diagnostics is disabled.

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