[DRE-maint] Bug#963477: ruby-rack: CVE-2020-8184

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Control: severity -1 grave

Cc'ing Utkarsh as one of the last uploaders.

On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 09:02:13AM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> Source: ruby-rack
> Version: 2.1.1-5
> Severity: important
> Tags: security upstream
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The following vulnerability was published for ruby-rack.
> 
> CVE-2020-8184[0]:
> | A reliance on cookies without validation/integrity check security
> | vulnerability exists in rack < 2.2.3, rack < 2.1.4 that makes it
> | is possible for an attacker to forge a secure or host-only cookie
> | prefix.
> 
> 
> If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
> CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.
> 
> For further information see:
> 
> [0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-8184
>     https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-8184
> 
> Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

While strictly speaking this issue is no-dsa for buster, I'm raising
the severity to RC, would it be possible to address this issue for
unstable (and so bullseye) before the freeze?

Regards,
Salvatore