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CVE-2017-0899

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 11.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-08-31 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-150

Description

RubyGems version 2.6.12 and earlier is vulnerable to maliciously crafted gem specifications that include terminal escape characters. Printing the gem specification would execute terminal escape sequences.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: 7.4, 7.6
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: 7.4, 7.5, 7.6
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Tus: 7.4, 7.6
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 7.0
• rubygems: through 2.6.12

References

• http://blog.rubygems.org/2017/08/27/2.6.13-released.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100576
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039249
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3485
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0378
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0583
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0585
• https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/commit/1bcbc7fe637b03145401ec9c094066285934a7f1
• https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/commit/ef0aa611effb5f54d40c7fba6e8235eb43c5a491
• https://hackerone.com/reports/226335
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00012.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-01

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