Insecure deserialization In opensearch

Description

opensearch-ruby 2.x before 2.0.2 vulnerable to unsafe YAML deserialization

Impact

A YAML deserialization in opensearch-ruby 2.0.0 can lead to unsafe deserialization using YAML.load if the response is of type YAML.

Patches

The problem has been patched in opensearch-ruby gem version 2.0.2.

Workarounds

No viable workaround. Please upgrade to 2.0.2

References

https://github.com/opensearch-project/opensearch-ruby/pull/77 https://staaldraad.github.io/post/2021-01-09-universal-rce-ruby-yaml-load-updated/

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Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

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