Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting image_processing package, versions <1.12.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.49% (77th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUBY-IMAGEPROCESSING-2414086
  • published2 Mar 2022
  • disclosed2 Mar 2022
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 Mar 2022

CVE-2022-24720  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade image_processing to version 1.12.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution due to the the usage of the #apply method (also called by Active Storage variants) to apply a series of operations that are coming from unsanitized user input.

PoC

ImageProcessing::Vips.apply({ system: "echo EXECUTED" })
#>> EXECUTED

References

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