GHSA-6325-6g32-7p35

flash_tool Gem for Ruby File Download Handling Arbitrary Command Execution

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Critical CVE-2013-2513

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
RubyGems	flash_tool	<= 0.6.0	no fix listed

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

flash_tool Gem for Ruby contains a flaw that is triggered during the handling of downloaded files that contain shell characters. With a specially crafted file, a context-dependent attacker can execute arbitrary commands.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-2513 advisory
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6325-6g32-7p35 advisory
https://github.com/milboj/flash_tool package
https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/flash_tool/CVE-2013-2513.yml web