Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting ruby2.5 package, versions <2.5.5-3+deb10u1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
4.19% (90th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-RUBY25-534947
  • published13 Nov 2019
  • disclosed26 Nov 2019

Introduced: 13 Nov 2019

CVE-2019-16255  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:10 ruby2.5 to version 2.5.5-3+deb10u1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ruby2.5 package and not the ruby2.5 package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

Ruby through 2.4.7, 2.5.x through 2.5.6, and 2.6.x through 2.6.4 allows code injection if the first argument (aka the "command" argument) to Shell#[] or Shell#test in lib/shell.rb is untrusted data. An attacker can exploit this to call an arbitrary Ruby method.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1