CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-8324
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-06-17
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-94
Description
An issue was discovered in RubyGems 2.6 and later through 3.0.2. A crafted gem with a multi-line name is not handled correctly. Therefore, an attacker could inject arbitrary code to the stub line of gemspec, which is eval-ed by code in ensure_loadable_spec during the preinstall check.
Affected configurations
• rubygems rubygems (>= 2.6.0 <= 3.0.2)
• debian debian linux 9.0
• opensuse leap 15.0
• opensuse leap 15.1
• redhat enterprise linux 8.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00036.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1972 Third Party Advisory
- https://hackerone.com/reports/328571 Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00027.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00036.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1972 Third Party Advisory
- https://hackerone.com/reports/328571 Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00027.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory