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CVE-2019-16255

HIGH
8.1CVSS
Published: 2019-11-26
Updated: 2024-11-21
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Description

Ruby through 2.4.7, 2.5.x through 2.5.6, and 2.6.x through 2.6.4 allows code injection if the first argument (aka the "command" argument) to Shell#[] or Shell#test in lib/shell.rb is untrusted data. An attacker can exploit this to call an arbitrary Ruby method.

CVSS Metrics

Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector
network
Complexity
high
Privileges
none
User Action
none
Scope
unchanged
Confidentiality
high
Integrity
high
Availability
high
Weaknesses
CWE-94

Metadata

Primary Vendor
RUBY-LANG
Published
11/26/2019
Last Modified
11/21/2024
Source
NIST NVD
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Affected Products

ruby-lang : rubyruby-lang : rubyruby-lang : rubydebian : debian_linuxdebian : debian_linuxopensuse : leaporacle : graalvm

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