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Facter: Privilege escalation
Background Facter is a cross-platform Ruby library for retrieving facts from operating systems. Description Facter includes the current working directory in the search path. Impact A local attacker may be able to gain escalated privileges. Workaround There is no known workaround at this time...
RedCloth Cross Site Scripting
I disclosed the following advisory about a XSS vulnerability of RedCloth Textile library for Ruby. http://co3k.org/blog/redcloth-unfixed-xss-en You shouldn't use RedCloth to parse user inputted contents and output the parsed string except that you allow your user to write arbitrary JavaScript cod...
DEBIAN-CVE-2013-1812
The ruby-openid gem before 2.2.2 for Ruby allows remote OpenID providers to cause a denial of service CPU consumption via 1 a large XRDS document or 2 an XML Entity Expansion XEE attack...
CVE-2005-1992
The XMLRPC server in utils.rb for the ruby library libruby 1.8 sets an invalid default value that prevents "security protection" using handlers, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands...
CVE-2005-1992
The XMLRPC server in utils.rb for the ruby library libruby 1.8 sets an invalid default value that prevents "security protection" using handlers, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands...