RHSA-2021:0937 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for rubygem-em-http-request is now available for Red Hat
OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens).

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,
which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability
from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

EventMachine based, async HTTP Request client.

Security Fix(es):

• missing SSL hostname validation allows MITM (CVE-2020-13482)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS
score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE
page listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes
described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenStack for IBM Power 13 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenStack 13 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1911457 - CVE-2020-13482 rubygem-em-http-request: missing SSL hostname validation allows MITM

CVEs

• CVE-2020-13482

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important