RubyGems Escape sequence injection in errors

GHSA-4wm8-fjv7-j774 · CVE-2019-8325

Published Jun 20, 2019 · Modified Feb 16, 2024

Description

An issue was discovered in RubyGems 2.6 and later through 3.0.2. Since Gem::CommandManager#run calls alert_error without escaping, escape sequence injection is possible. (There are many ways to cause an error.)

References

ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-8325
WEB https://blog.rubygems.org/2019/03/05/security-advisories-2019-03.html
WEB https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rubygems-update/CVE-2019-8325.yml
WEB https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00027.html
WEB http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00036.html

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