GitHub Advisoryadvisory · RubyGems
GHSA-pv9c-9mfh-hvxq iCalendar has ICS injection via unsanitized URI property values
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2026-33635
- Ecosystem
- RubyGems
- Packages
- icalendar
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-93
- Reviewed
- 2026-03-24
Affected packages
• RubyGems icalendar: >= 2.0.0, < 2.12.2 → fixed in 2.12.2
Description
Summary
.ics serialization does not properly sanitize URI property values, enabling ICS injection through attacker-controlled input, adding arbitrary calendar lines to the output.
Details
`Icalendar::Values::Uri` falls back to the raw input string when `URI.parse` fails and later serializes it with `value.to_s` without removing or escaping `\r` or `\n` characters. That value is embedded directly into the final ICS line by the normal serializer, so a payload containing CRLF can terminate the original property and create a new ICS property or component. (It looks like you can inject via url, source, image, organizer, attach, attendee, conference, tzurl because of this)
Relevant code:
• `lib/icalendar/values/uri.rb:16`
PoC
Run the following with the library loaded:
```ruby
require "icalendar/value"
require "icalendar/values/uri"
v = Icalendar::Values::Uri.new("https://a.example/ok\r\nATTENDEE:mailto:[email protected]")
puts v.to_ical(Icalendar::Values::Text)
```
output:
```text
;VALUE=URI:https://a.example/ok
ATTENDEE:mailto:[email protected]
```
Impact
Applications that generate `.ics` files from partially untrusted metadata are impacted. As a result, downstream calendar clients or importers may process attacker-supplied content as if it were legitimate event data, such as added attendees, modified URLs, alarms, or other calendar fields.
Fix
Reject raw CR and LF characters in `URI`-typed values before serialization, or escape/encode them so they cannot terminate the current ICS content line.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2026-33635 iCalendar is a Ruby library for dealing with iCalendar files in the iCalendar format defined by RFC-5545. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-93 Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences weakness
References
- https://github.com/icalendar/icalendar/security/advisories/GHSA-pv9c-9mfh-hvxq web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-33635 advisory
- https://github.com/icalendar/icalendar/commit/b8d23b490363ee5fffaec1d269a8618a912ca265 web
- https://github.com/icalendar/icalendar package
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/icalendar/CVE-2026-33635.yml web