Ruby Improper Authentication Vulnerability - CVE-2009-0642 - Vulnerability Database

Ruby Improper Authentication Vulnerability - CVE-2009-0642

Medium

Reference: CVE-2009-0642

NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-0642

Title: Ruby Improper Authentication Vulnerability

Overview:

ext/openssl/ossl_ocsp.c in Ruby 1.8 and 1.9 does not properly check the return value from the OCSP_basic_verify function which might allow remote attackers to successfully present an invalid X.509 certificate possibly involving a revoked certificate.