CVE-2015-7541

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-01-08 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-77

Description

The initialize method in the Histogram class in lib/colorscore/histogram.rb in the colorscore gem before 0.0.5 for Ruby allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via shell metacharacters in the (1) image_path, (2) colors, or (3) depth variable.

Affected products

Colorscore Project Colorscore: through 0.0.4

References

http://rubysec.com/advisories/CVE-2015-7541/
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/05/2
https://github.com/quadule/colorscore/commit/570b5e854cecddd44d2047c44126aed951b61718
http://rubysec.com/advisories/CVE-2015-7541/
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/05/2
https://github.com/quadule/colorscore/commit/570b5e854cecddd44d2047c44126aed951b61718

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