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.
Published: 2019-06-17
Score: 8.8 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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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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Debian Debian Linux
Opensuse Leap
Redhat Cloudforms Managementengine Enterprise Linux Rhel Aus Rhel E4s Rhel Software Collections Rhel Tus
Rubygems Rubygems
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T21:17:31.266Z

Reserved: 2019-02-13T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2019-8324

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Status : Modified

Published: 2019-06-17T19:15:11.843

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:49:41.710

Link: CVE-2019-8324

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Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2019-03-05T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2019-8324 - Bugzilla

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