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RubyGems Code Injection vulnerability

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 13, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Mar 9, 2023

Package

bundler rubygems-update (RubyGems)

Affected versions

< 2.6.13

Patched versions

2.6.13

Description

RubyGems prior to 2.6.13 is vulnerable to maliciously crafted gem specifications that include terminal escape characters. Printing the gem specification would execute terminal escape sequences.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Aug 31, 2017
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 13, 2022
Reviewed Mar 9, 2023
Last updated Mar 9, 2023

Severity

Critical
9.8
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2017-0899

GHSA ID

GHSA-7gcp-2gmq-w3xh

Source code

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