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CVE-2017-17405
- Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 73.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2017-12-15 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-78
Description
Ruby before 2.4.3 allows Net::FTP command injection. Net::FTP#get, getbinaryfile, gettextfile, put, putbinaryfile, and puttextfile use Kernel#open to open a local file. If the localfile argument starts with the "|" pipe character, the command following the pipe character is executed. The default value of localfile is File.basename(remotefile), so malicious FTP servers could cause arbitrary command execution.
Affected products
- Debian Linux: 7.0, 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
- Ruby: from 2.2 through 2.2.8; from 2.3 through 2.3.5; from 2.4 through 2.4.2; 2.5.0-preview1
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102204
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042004
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0378
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0583
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0584
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0585
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2806
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00024.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00025.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00012.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4259
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43381/
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