Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting image_processing package, versions <1.12.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Proof of concept
    EPSS
    0.4% (75th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-IMAGEPROCESSING-2414086
  • published 2 Mar 2022
  • disclosed 2 Mar 2022
  • credit Unknown

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

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
9.8 critical
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High
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NVD

9.8 critical