GitHub Advisoryadvisory · RubyGems

GHSA-g266-3crh-h7gj ldoce Gem Arbitrary Command Execution

MEDIUM Published 2017-10-24 Modified 2023-08-29 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2013-1911
Ecosystem
RubyGems
Packages
ldoce
Severity
Moderate
Weaknesses
CWE-20
Reviewed
2020-06-16

Affected packages

• RubyGems ldoce: <= 0.0.2 (no fix yet)

Description

`lib/ldoce/word.rb` in the ldoce 0.0.2 gem for Ruby allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in (1) an mp3 URL or (2) file name.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2013-1911 lib/ldoce/word.rb in the ldoce 0.0.2 gem for Ruby allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in (1) an… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References