Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-17790

RCE

Title: Ruby-Lang Ruby RCE

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-17790.

CWE Category CWE-74

Published Date Dec 20, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 9.8 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

4.66%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-17790: The lazy_initialize function in lib/resolv.rb in Ruby through 2.4.3 uses Kernel#open, which might allow Command Injection attacks, as demonstrated by a Resolv::Hosts::new argument beginning with a '|' character, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-17405. NOTE: situations with untrusted input may be highly unlikely.

Impacted Vendors

ruby-lang 1

yukihiro_matsumoto 1

Reference Links

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0378 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0583 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0584 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0585 https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/1777 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00024.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00025.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00012.html https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4259 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0378 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0583 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0584 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0585 https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/1777 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00024.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00025.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00012.html https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4259

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity CRITICAL

9.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns