The gist RubyGem before 6.1.0 contains an improper certificate validation vulnerability that allows on-path attackers to intercept HTTPS traffic because http_connection in lib/gist.rb sets VERIFY_NONE. Attackers can present any certificate to read or modify GitHub API traffic, stealing OAuth tokens and login credentials to read and modify the victim's gists.
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"cna_assigner": "VulnCheck",
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-295"
],
"osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/105xxx/CVE-2026-105221.json"
}