CVE Feed

    Dashboard / CVE / CVE-2017-17790

    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.

    Published:Dec 19, 2017
    Last Modified:Apr 20, 2025
    EPS:Dec 20, 2017
    EPSS Score:0.08386
    CVSS Score:9.8

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Rhel Software Collections
    Vendor
    Ruby-lang
    Product
    Ruby

    Exploits

    https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/1777https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/1777

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-10 Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables
    CAPEC-101 Server Side Include (SSI) Injection
    CAPEC-105 HTTP Request Splitting
    CAPEC-108 Command Line Execution through SQL Injection
    CAPEC-120 Double Encoding
    CAPEC-13 Subverting Environment Variable Values
    CAPEC-135 Format String Injection
    CAPEC-136 LDAP Injection
    CAPEC-14 Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow
    CAPEC-15 Command Delimiters
    CAPEC-183 IMAP/SMTP Command Injection
    CAPEC-24 Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow
    CAPEC-248 Command Injection
    CAPEC-250 XML Injection
    CAPEC-267 Leverage Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-273 HTTP Response Smuggling
    CAPEC-28 Fuzzing
    CAPEC-3 Using Leading 'Ghost' Character Sequences to Bypass Input Filters
    CAPEC-34 HTTP Response Splitting
    CAPEC-40 Manipulating Writeable Terminal Devices
    CAPEC-42 MIME Conversion
    CAPEC-43 Exploiting Multiple Input Interpretation Layers
    CAPEC-45 Buffer Overflow via Symbolic Links
    CAPEC-46 Overflow Variables and Tags
    CAPEC-47 Buffer Overflow via Parameter Expansion
    CAPEC-51 Poison Web Service Registry
    CAPEC-52 Embedding NULL Bytes
    CAPEC-53 Postfix, Null Terminate, and Backslash
    CAPEC-6 Argument Injection
    CAPEC-64 Using Slashes and URL Encoding Combined to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-67 String Format Overflow in syslog()
    CAPEC-7 Blind SQL Injection
    CAPEC-71 Using Unicode Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-72 URL Encoding
    CAPEC-75 Manipulating Writeable Configuration Files
    CAPEC-76 Manipulating Web Input to File System Calls
    CAPEC-78 Using Escaped Slashes in Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-79 Using Slashes in Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-8 Buffer Overflow in an API Call
    CAPEC-80 Using UTF-8 Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-83 XPath Injection
    CAPEC-84 XQuery Injection
    CAPEC-9 Buffer Overflow in Local Command-Line Utilities

    Related CVEs

    CVE-2026-77159 (CVSS 5.5) — A symlink-following flaw was found in libvirt's qemuTPMEmulatorPrepareHost() function. The function uses a pat…
    CVE-2026-88914 (CVSS 4.4) — A flaw was found in GStreamer's gst-plugins-good isomp4 plugin. When processing a specially crafted MP4 or MOV…
    CVE-2026-84828 (CVSS 6.5) — A flaw was found in PCS (Pacemaker Configuration System). A local attacker with membership in the 'haclient' g…
    CVE-2026-88859 (CVSS 6.3) — A flaw was found in Evolution. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted…
    CVE-2026-18147 (CVSS 8.1) — A flaw was found in FreeIPA. An unauthenticated remote attacker could exploit a DOM Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)…
    CVE-2026-87853 (CVSS 7.5) — A flaw was found in SSSD's IdP authentication provider. The eval_access_token_buf() function compares the OIDC…
    CVE-2026-88924 (CVSS 7) — A flaw was found in the admin backend of gvfs. The privileged gvfsd-admin daemon changes the ownership of newl…
    CVE-2026-87876 (CVSS 3) — Two case-insensitive comparisons on request-derived usernames outside the main authorization path in CUPS's sc…
    CVE-2026-87875 (CVSS 4.3) — The cupsUTF32ToUTF8() function in CUPS's cups/transcode.c lacks a source-length bound and can read past the en…
    CVE-2026-87766 (CVSS 8.8) — A flaw was found in bubblewrap. During sandbox setup, creating files or directories under the new root can fol…

    References

    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

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High