rubygem-actionpack: Timing attack vulnerability in basic authentication in Action Controller

A flaw was found in the way the Action Controller component compared user names and passwords when performing HTTP basic authentication. Time taken to compare strings could differ depending on input, possibly allowing a remote attacker to determine valid user names and passwords using a timing...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: ror40 security update

Updated ror40-rubygem-actionpack and ror40-rubygem-activerecord packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Software Collections. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores,...

rubygem-actionpack: Timing attack vulnerability in basic authentication in Action Controller

A flaw was found in the way the Action Controller component compared user names and passwords when performing HTTP basic authentication. Time taken to compare strings could differ depending on input, possibly allowing a remote attacker to determine valid user names and passwords using a timing...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: ruby193 security update

Updated ruby193-rubygem-actionpack and ruby193-rubygem-activerecord packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Software Collections. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base...

USN-2915-3 python-django regression

USN-2915-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Django. The upstream fix for CVE-2016-2512 introduced a regression for certain applications. This update fixes the problem by applying the complete upstream regression fix. Original advisory details: Mark Striemer discovered that Django incorrectly handled...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2512

The utils.http.issafeurl function in Django before 1.8.10 and 1.9.x before 1.9.3 allows remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks or possibly conduct cross-site scripting XSS attacks via a URL containing basic authentication, as demonstrated by...

SUSE-SU-2016:0623-1 Security update for rubygem-activesupport-3_2

This update for rubygem-activesupport-32 fixes the following issues: - CVE-2015-7576: Timing attack vulnerability in basic authentication in Action Controller bsc963329...

Wireshark ASN.1 BER Parser Denial of Service Vulnerability

Wireshark is the most popular network protocol parser. A denial of service vulnerability exists in the Wireshark ASN.1 BER parser, which can be exploited by an attacker to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds read and application crash...

DEBIAN-CVE-2016-2522

The dissectberconstrainedbitstring function in epan/dissectors/packet-ber.c in the ASN.1 BER dissector in Wireshark 2.0.x before 2.0.2 does not verify that a certain length is nonzero, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds read and application crash via a crafte...

rubygem-actionpack: Timing attack vulnerability in basic authentication in Action Controller

A flaw was found in the way the Action Controller component compared user names and passwords when performing HTTP basic authentication. Time taken to compare strings could differ depending on input, possibly allowing a remote attacker to determine valid user names and passwords using a timing...

HTTP Server Basic Authentication Detection

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CVE-2015-7576

The httpbasicauthenticatewith method in actionpack/lib/actioncontroller/metal/httpauthentication.rb in the Basic Authentication implementation in Action Controller in Ruby on Rails before 3.2.22.1, 4.0.x and 4.1.x before 4.1.14.1, 4.2.x before 4.2.5.1, and 5.x before 5.0.0.beta1.1 does not use a...

Authentication flaw

The httpbasicauthenticatewith method in actionpack/lib/actioncontroller/metal/httpauthentication.rb in the Basic Authentication implementation in Action Controller in Ruby on Rails before 3.2.22.1, 4.0.x and 4.1.x before 4.1.14.1, 4.2.x before 4.2.5.1, and 5.x before 5.0.0.beta1.1 does not use a...

UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7576

The httpbasicauthenticatewith method in actionpack/lib/actioncontroller/metal/httpauthentication.rb in the Basic Authentication implementation in Action Controller in Ruby on Rails before 3.2.22.1, 4.0.x and 4.1.x before 4.1.14.1, 4.2.x before 4.2.5.1, and 5.x before 5.0.0.beta1.1 does not use a...

DEBIAN-CVE-2015-7576

The httpbasicauthenticatewith method in actionpack/lib/actioncontroller/metal/httpauthentication.rb in the Basic Authentication implementation in Action Controller in Ruby on Rails before 3.2.22.1, 4.0.x and 4.1.x before 4.1.14.1, 4.2.x before 4.2.5.1, and 5.x before 5.0.0.beta1.1 does not use a...

CVE-2015-7576

Ruby on Rails: The http_basic_authenticate_with path in Action Controller is vulnerable to a timing-attack bypass when verifying credentials, not using constant-time comparison. A remote attacker could determine valid usernames/passwords by measuring response times. Affected rails versions includ...

New Relic: Unauthorized Access

Summary of Findings ------------------------------- The remote server https://download.newrelic.com allowed unauthenticated access to special access files that are only intended to be accessible after contacting the New Relic program managers as seen below. Exploiting the...

openSUSE Security Update : rubygem-actionpack-3_2 / rubygem-activesupport-3_2 (openSUSE-2016-160)

This update for rubygem-actionpack-32, rubygem-activesupport-32 fixes the following issues : - CVE-2015-7576: Timing attack vulnerability in basic authentication in Action Controller boo963329 - CVE-2016-0752: directory traversal and information leak in Action View boo963332 - CVE-2016-0751:...

New Relic: Basic Authorization over HTTP

Hi New Relic Team, While reviewing your host http://newrelic.com/ it was discovered that you are basic authorization over http , which is not a good practice If an attacker can intercept traffic on the network, he/she might be able to steal the user's credentials. Request:- GET /styleguide-layout...

Vulnerability of Microsoft Visio graphic editors, Microsoft Excel spreadsheet editors, Microsoft PowerPoint presentation preparation software, Microsoft Word word processors, Microsoft Visual Basic software development environment, Microsoft Office software suite – tools that allow attackers to bypass ASLR protection mechanisms.

The vulnerabilities of Microsoft Visio, a graphic editor; Microsoft Excel, an electronic spreadsheet editor; Microsoft PowerPoint, a presentation software; Microsoft Word, a text editor; the Microsoft Visual Basic development environment; and the Microsoft Office suite are related to the lack of...