CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-0469

9.3 HIGH Published 2007-01-24 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-01-24
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

The extract_files function in installer.rb in RubyGems before 0.9.1 does not check whether files exist before overwriting them, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files, cause a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code via crafted GEM packages.

Affected configurations

• rubyforge rubygems (<= 0.9.0) • rubyforge rubygems 0.8.11

References