CVE-2017-0904

2017-11-0500:00:00

CWE-242

hackerone

www.cve.org

8.1 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

72.8%

JSON

The private_address_check ruby gem before 0.4.0 is vulnerable to a bypass due to use of Ruby’s Resolv.getaddresses method, which is OS-dependent and should not be relied upon for security measures, such as when used to blacklist private network addresses to prevent server-side request forgery.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "private_address_check ruby gem",
    "vendor": "jtdowney",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "Versions before 0.4.0"
      }
    ]
  }
]