CVE-2021-32066
HIGHRuby < 2.6.7, 2.7.x < 2.7.3, 3.x < 3.0.1 - TLS Protection Bypass via StartTLS Stripping
Title source: llmDescription
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."
References (8)
Core 8
Core References
Third Party Advisory mailing-list
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00009.html
Mailing List mailing-list
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/04/msg00033.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-27
Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/a21a3b7d23704a01d34bd79d09dc37897e00922a
Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://hackerone.com/reports/1178562
Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210902-0004/
Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
Scores
CVSS v3
7.4
EPSS
0.0007
EPSS Percentile
22.3%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Details
CWE
CWE-755
Status
published
Products (2)
oracle/jd_edwards_enterpriseone_tools
< 9.2.6.1
ruby-lang/ruby
2.6.0 - 2.6.7
Published
Aug 01, 2021
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026