Code injection in RubyGems
An issue was discovered in RubyGems 2.6 and later through 3.0.2. A crafted gem with a multi-line name is not handled correctly. Therefore, an attacker could inject arbitrary code to the stub line of gemspec, which is eval-ed by code in ensure_loadable_spec during the preinstall check.
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Related CVEs.
| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2019-8324US | high8.8 | — | ||
An issue was discovered in RubyGems 2.6 and later through 3.0.2. A crafted gem with a multi-line name is not handled correctly. Therefore, an attacker could inject arbitrary code t… | ||||
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External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00036.htmlWEB
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1972WEB
- https://blog.rubygems.org/2019/03/05/security-advisories-2019-03.htmlWEB
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rubygems-update/CVE-2019-8324.ymlWEB
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00027.htmlWEB
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-8324ADVISORY
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