GitHub Advisoryadvisory · RubyGems
GHSA-w757-4qv9-mghp openc3-api Vulnerable to Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution
CRITICAL
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- Aliases
- CVE-2025-68271
- Ecosystem
- RubyGems
- Packages
- openc3
- Severity
- Critical
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-95
- Reviewed
- 2026-01-13
Affected packages
• RubyGems openc3: >= 5.0.6, < 6.10.2 → fixed in 6.10.2
Description
Summary
OpenC3 COSMOS contains a critical remote code execution vulnerability reachable through the JSON-RPC API. When a JSON-RPC request uses the string form of certain APIs, attacker-controlled parameter text is parsed into values using String#convert_to_value. For array-like inputs, convert_to_value executes eval().
Because the cmd code path parses the command string before calling authorize(), an unauthenticated attacker can trigger Ruby code execution even though the request ultimately fails authorization (401).
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2025-68271 OpenC3 COSMOS provides the functionality needed to send commands to and receive data from one or more embedded systems. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-95 Improper Neutralization of Directives in Dynamically Evaluated Code weakness
References
- https://github.com/OpenC3/cosmos/security/advisories/GHSA-w757-4qv9-mghp web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68271 advisory
- https://github.com/OpenC3/cosmos/commit/01e9fbc5e66e9a2500b71a75a44775dd1fc2d1de web
- https://github.com/OpenC3/cosmos package
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/openc3/CVE-2025-68271.yml web