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CVE-2019-8324

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-06-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-94

Description

An issue was discovered in RubyGems 2.6 and later through 3.0.2. A crafted gem with a multi-line name is not handled correctly. Therefore, an attacker could inject arbitrary code to the stub line of gemspec, which is eval-ed by code in ensure_loadable_spec during the preinstall check.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 9.0
• openSUSE Leap: 15.0, 15.1
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 8.0
• rubygems: from 2.6.0 through 3.0.2

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00036.html
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1972
• https://hackerone.com/reports/328571
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00027.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00036.html
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1972
• https://hackerone.com/reports/328571
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00027.html

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