Advisories for Gem/Fluentd package

An issue was discovered in Fluent Fluentd v.1.8.0 and Fluent-ui v.1.2.2 that allows attackers to gain escilated privileges and execute arbitrary code due to use of a default password.

Fluentd collects events from various data sources and writes them to files, RDBMS, NoSQL, IaaS, SaaS, Hadoop and so on. A remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in non-default configurations of Fluentd allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code via specially crafted JSON payloads. Fluentd setups are only affected if the environment variable FLUENT_OJ_OPTION_MODE is explicitly set to object. Please note: The option FLUENT_OJ_OPTION_MODE was introduced in Fluentd version 1.13.2. Earlier …

Fluentd collects events from various data sources and writes them to files to help unify logging infrastructure. The parser_apache2 plugin in Fluentd suffers from a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) vulnerability. A broken apache log with a certain pattern of string can spend too much time in a regular expression, resulting in the potential for a DoS attack. There are two workarounds available. Either don't use parser_apache2 for parsing …

Escape sequence injection vulnerability in Fluentd may allow an attacker to change the terminal UI or execute arbitrary commands on the device via unspecified vectors.