GHSA-9hx9-w2j6-rw76

Script Injection in Show In Browser gem

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2013-2105

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
RubyGems	show_in_browser	0.0.3	no fix listed

Details

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

The Show In Browser (show_in_browser) gem 0.0.3 for Ruby allows local users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a symlink attack on `/tmp/browser.html`.

References

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

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-2105 advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/84378 web
https://github.com/jonleung/show_in_browser package
https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/show_in_browser/CVE-2013-2105.yml web
http://vapid.dhs.org/advisories/show_in_browser.html web
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/18/4 web