GitHub Advisoryadvisory · RubyGems

GHSA-pv9c-9mfh-hvxq iCalendar has ICS injection via unsanitized URI property values

MEDIUM Published 2026-03-24 Modified 2026-03-27 Official page ↗
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

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