Malicious Package Affecting simple_captcha2 package, versions =0.2.3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
0.83% (82nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUBY-SIMPLECAPTCHA2-455501
  • published26 Jul 2019
  • disclosed23 Jul 2019
  • creditRuian Duan

Introduced: 23 Jul 2019

Malicious CVE-2019-14282  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-506  (opens in a new tab)

Overview

simple_captcha2 is a gem that enables use of CAPTCHA in Rails applications.

The affected version of this package is a Malicious Package. In simple_captcha2-0.2.3/lib/simple_captcha/middleware.rb there is a code-execution backdoor maliciously inserted by a third party.

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