CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-5380

6.7 MEDIUM Published 2012-10-11 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2012-10-11
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
6.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.0 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-22

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the installation functionality in Ruby 1.9.3-p194, when installed in the top-level C:\ directory, might allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in the C:\Ruby193\bin directory, which may be added to the PATH system environment variable by an administrator, as demonstrated by a Trojan horse wlbsctrl.dll file used by the "IKE and AuthIP IPsec Keying Modules" system service in Windows Vista SP1, Windows Server 2008 SP2, Windows 7 SP1, and Windows 8 Release Preview. NOTE: CVE disputes this issue because the unsafe PATH is established only by a separate administrative action that is not a default part of the Ruby installation

Affected configurations

• ruby-lang ruby 1.9.3

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness

References