In short
- CVE-2018-6517 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting chloride, chloride (puppet).
- Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.89%, higher than 59.5% of all vulnerabilities.
- Fix: update to 0.3.0 or later.
| Package | Affected versions | Patched versions |
|---|
| chloride RubyGems | < 0.3.0
| 0.3.0
|
| chloride | < 0.3.0
| 0.3.0
|
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.
NVD 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.
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