CVE-2021-32066 Information

Description

An issue was discovered in Ruby through 2.6.7 2.7.x through 2.7.3 and 3.x through 3.0.1. Net::IMAP does not raise an exception when StartTLS fails with an an unknown response which might allow man-in-the-middle attackers to bypass the TLS protections by leveraging a network position between the client and the registry to block the StartTLS command aka a \StartTLS stripping attack.\

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Reference

https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/a21a3b7d23704a01d34bd79d09dc37897e00922a https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2021/07/07/starttls-stripping-in-net-imap/ https://hackerone.com/reports/1178562 https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210902-0004/ https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00009.html https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

7.4