GHSA-w248-xr37-jx8m

fastreader Gem for Ruby URI Handling Arbitrary Command Injection

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2013-2615

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
RubyGems	fastreader	>= 1.0.0	no fix listed

Details

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

fastreader Gem for Ruby contains a flaw that is triggered during the handling of specially crafted input passed via a URL that contains a ';' character. This may allow a context-dependent attacker to potentially execute arbitrary commands.

References

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

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-2615 advisory
https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/fastreader/CVE-2013-2615.yml web
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/120776/Ruby-Gem-Fastreader-1.0.8-Command-Execution.html web
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/120845/Ruby-Gem-Fastreader-1.0.8-Code-Execution.html web
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2013/Mar/122 web
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/19/9 web