{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2018-10-17T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "ruby: Tainted flags are not propagated in Array#pack and String#unpack with some directives",
    "id" : "1643089",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1643089"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "5.9",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-20",
  "details" : [ "An issue was discovered in Ruby before 2.3.8, 2.4.x before 2.4.5, 2.5.x before 2.5.2, and 2.6.x before 2.6.0-preview3. It does not taint strings that result from unpacking tainted strings with some formats." ],
  "statement" : "Subscription Asset Manager is now in a reduced support phase receiving only Critical impact security fixes. This issue has been rated as having a security impact of Low, and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates.\nRed Hat Virtualization includes a vulnerable version of ruby, however the affected functionality is not used in Red Hat Virtualization or any of its dependencies. A future update may address this issue.",
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    "release_date" : "2019-08-06T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2019:2028",
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  }, {
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    "release_date" : "2020-06-30T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2020:2769",
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    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Telco Extended Update Support",
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    "advisory" : "RHSA-2020:2839",
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  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
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    "advisory" : "RHSA-2018:3729",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_software_collections:3::el6",
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    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
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    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
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    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
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    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
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    "impact" : "low"
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  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-16396\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16396\nhttps://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2018/10/17/not-propagated-taint-flag-in-some-formats-of-pack-cve-2018-16396/" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2018-16396",
  "csaw" : false
}