CVE-2019-8324

CVE Details

Release Date:	2019-06-17
Impact:	Important	What is this?

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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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v3 metrics

Base Score:	8.8
Vector String:	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Version:	3.0
Attack Vector:	Network
Attack Complexity:	Low
Privileges Required:	None
User Interaction:	Required
Scope:	Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact:	High
Integrity Impact:	High
Availability Impact:	High

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 7 (ruby)	ELSA-2019-1235	2019-05-16
Oracle Linux version 8 (ruby)	ELSA-2019-1972	2019-08-05
Oracle Linux version 8 (rubygem-abrt)	ELSA-2019-1972	2019-08-05
Oracle Linux version 8 (rubygem-bson)	ELSA-2019-1972	2019-08-05
Oracle Linux version 8 (rubygem-bundler)	ELSA-2019-1972	2019-08-05
Oracle Linux version 8 (rubygem-mongo)	ELSA-2019-1972	2019-08-05
Oracle Linux version 8 (rubygem-mysql2)	ELSA-2019-1972	2019-08-05
Oracle Linux version 8 (rubygem-pg)	ELSA-2019-1972	2019-08-05