Command Injection Affecting rubyipmi package, versions <0.13.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.2% (43rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUBY-RUBYIPMI-15367368
  • published2 Mar 2026
  • disclosed27 Feb 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Feb 2026

NewCVE-2026-0980  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-78  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade rubyipmi to version 0.13.0 or higher.

Overview

rubyipmi is a Controls IPMI devices via command line wrapper for ipmitool and freeipmi

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Command Injection via the username parameter in the BMC interface. An attacker can execute arbitrary system commands by supplying a specially crafted value to this parameter.

Note: This is only exploitable if the attacker has host creation or update permissions.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1