CVE-2019-16255

Public on 2019-11-26
Modified on 2023-06-22
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.

Severity
Important
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CVSS v3 Base Score
8.1
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 2 ruby 2024-02-29 10:03 ALAS2-2024-2486
Amazon Linux 2 ruby 2023-08-21 20:59 ALAS2RUBY2.6-2023-007
Amazon Linux 1 ruby24 2020-08-26 23:09 ALAS-2020-1422

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD CVSSv3 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD CVSSv2 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P