uri: userinfo leakage in URI#join, URI#merge and URI#+

A flaw was found in the URI ruby gem package, where userinfo leakage can occur in the uri gem. The methods URIjoin, URImerge, and URI+ retained userinfo, such as user:password, even after the host is replaced. When generating a URL to a malicious host from a URL containing secret userinfo using...

In the URI gem before 1.0.3 for Ruby, the URI handling methods (URI.join, URI#merge, URI#+) have an inadvertent leakage of authentication credentials because userinfo is retained even after changing the host.

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