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fastreader Gem for Ruby URI Handling Arbitrary Command Injection

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Oct 24, 2017 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Aug 28, 2023

Package

bundler fastreader (RubyGems)

Affected versions

>= 1.0.0

Patched versions

None

Description

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

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Oct 24, 2017
Reviewed Jun 16, 2020
Last updated Aug 28, 2023

Severity

High

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

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(89th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2013-2615

GHSA ID

GHSA-w248-xr37-jx8m

Source code

No known source code
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