CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-14282
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-07-26
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-94
Description
The simple_captcha2 gem 0.2.3 for Ruby, as distributed on RubyGems.org, included a code-execution backdoor inserted by a third party.
Affected configurations
• simple captcha2 project simple captcha2 0.2.3
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code weakness
References
- https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems.org/issues/2073 Third Party Advisory
- https://rubygems.org/gems/simple_captcha2/versions/ Third Party Advisory
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-RUBY-SIMPLECAPTCHA2-455501 snyk.io
- https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems.org/issues/2073 Third Party Advisory
- https://rubygems.org/gems/simple_captcha2/versions/ Third Party Advisory
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-RUBY-SIMPLECAPTCHA2-455501 snyk.io