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CVE-2019-7615 — Vulnerability in elastic-apm — CVE Details

HIGH

Elastic APM agent for Ruby vulnerable to Improper Certificate Validation

Published May 24, 2022Updated February 16, 2024Source: osv

Summary

A TLS certificate validation flaw was found in Elastic APM agent for Ruby versions before 2.9.0. When specifying a trusted server CA certificate via the `server_ca_cert` setting, the Ruby agent would not properly verify the certificate returned by the APM server. This could result in a man in the middle style attack against the Ruby agent.

Advisory Timeline

  • First published May 24, 2022 (1602 days ago).
  • Last revised February 16, 2024 — 633 days after initial publication.

Remediation

Upgrade to the fixed version using your package manager.

Bundler
Update elastic-apm to 2.9.0 or later
gem install elastic-apm -v 2.9.0

After upgrading, run your dependency scanner again to confirm the vulnerability is resolved.

Affected Packages (1)

Affects 1 ecosystem: rubygems (1).

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed In
elastic-apm
rubygems
0.1.0, 0.2.0, 0.3.0, 0.4.0 (+36 more)2.9.0

Vulnerability Classification

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) identifiers for this vulnerability type.

  • CWE-295
    Improper Certificate ValidationMITRE

CVSS Score Breakdown

What the CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System) 7.4 score means for each attack dimension.

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None

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

References

Frequently Asked Questions

What is CVE-2019-7615?
Elastic APM agent for Ruby vulnerable to Improper Certificate Validation This vulnerability has been assigned a severity rating of HIGH (CVSS score: 7.4/10).
How do I check if my project is affected by CVE-2019-7615?
CVE-2019-7615 affects elastic-apm. Use GeekWala's free vulnerability scanner to check your dependencies against CVE-2019-7615 and 200,000+ other known vulnerabilities.

Severity & Exploitability

CVSS Score
7.4

High exploitability or significant impact. Prioritize remediation within days.

Also Known As

GHSA-35j2-p8fh-x966

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