Malicious Package Affecting strong_password package, versions =0.0.7


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team. Learn more

Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.73% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUBY-STRONGPASSWORD-451547
  • published6 Jul 2019
  • disclosed3 Jul 2019
  • creditWithaTwist

Introduced: 3 Jul 2019

Malicious CVE-2019-13354  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-506  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Avoid using strong_password v0.0.7 altogether. Downgrading to v0.0.6 will ensure no malicious code execution is possible.

Overview

strong_password is a is an entropy-based password strength checking for Ruby and ActiveModel

This gem was hijacked by a malicious actor, who has published v0.0.7 containing malicious code that enables them to execute remote code in production.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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