Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting rubygems-update package, versions >=2.6.0, <2.7.9>=3.0.0, <3.0.3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.37% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUBY-RUBYGEMSUPDATE-598864
  • published19 Aug 2020
  • disclosed20 Jun 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 20 Jun 2019

CVE-2019-8323  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade rubygems-update to version 2.7.9, 3.0.3 or higher.

Overview

rubygems-update is an inbuilt rubygem for updating rubygems.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Injection. Gem::GemcutterUtilities#with_response may output the API response to stdout as it is. Therefore, if the API side modifies the response, escape sequence injection may occur.

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