CVE-2019-8324

rubygems: Installing a malicious gem may lead to arbitrary code execution

Published Jun 17, 2019 CVSS 3.1 · 8.8 High EPSS 3.2% KEV · Not listed
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.

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1735-1 ruby2.1 security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1796-1 jruby security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2330-1 jruby security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4433-1 ruby2.3 security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2019-0514 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-76wm-422q-92mq Code injection in RubyGems
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3945-1 Ruby vulnerabilities
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