High severity · published Jun 17, 2019
CVE-2019-8324
An issue was discovered in RubyGems 2.6 and later through 3.0.2
8.8
CVSS
3.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)3.2% · higher than 88% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
9.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux · Redhat
8.0 · source: NVD
LE
Leap · Opensuse
15.0; 15.1 · source: NVD
RU
Rubygems · Rubygems
2.6.0 through 3.0.2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-8324
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-8324
Mailing List
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00036.html
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1972
Permissions Required
https://hackerone.com/reports/328571
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00027.html
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