ADVISORIES

• OSVDB-62067
• Vendor Advisory

GEM

bcrypt

PLATFORM

JRuby

PATCHED VERSIONS

• >= 2.1.4

DESCRIPTION

In https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-RUBY-BCRYPT-20009, found "The advisory has been revoked - it doesn’t affect any version of package bcrypt"

bcrypt-ruby Gem for Ruby suffered from a bug related to character encoding that substantially reduced the entropy of hashed passwords containing non US-ASCII characters. An incorrect encoding step transparently replaced such characters by ‘?’ prior to hashing. In the worst case of a password consisting solely of non-US-ASCII characters, this would cause its hash to be equivalent to all other such passwords of the same length.

This issue only affects the JRuby implementation.

RELATED

• https://github.com/jeremyh/jBCrypt
• http://www.mindrot.org/files/jBCrypt/internat.adv
• https://github.com/bcrypt-ruby/bcrypt-ruby/blob/master/ext/jruby/bcrypt_jruby/BCrypt.java