CVE-2018-6517

HIGH

chloride < 0.3.0 - Improper Certificate Validation via net-ssh Host Fingerprint Handling

Title source: llm

Description

Prior to version 0.3.0, chloride's use of net-ssh resulted in host fingerprints for previously unknown hosts getting added to the user's known_hosts file without confirmation. In version 0.3.0 this is updated so that the user's known_hosts file is not updated by chloride.

References (1)

Core 1

Core References

Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm

https://puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6517

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5

EPSS 0.0020

EPSS Percentile 41.6%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

Details

CWE

CWE-295

Status published

Products (2)

puppet/chloride < 0.3.0

rubygems/chloride 0 - 0.3.0RubyGems

Published Mar 21, 2019

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026