CVE-2017-0899

CRITICAL9.8EPSS 9.3%

RubyGems Code Injection vulnerability

Published: 5/13/2022Modified: 4/28/2026

Description

RubyGems version 2.6.12 and earlier is vulnerable to maliciously crafted gem specifications that include terminal escape characters. Printing the gem specification would execute terminal escape sequences.

Affected packages (3)

Alpine/rubyfrom 0, < 2.4.2-r0
Debian/rubygemsfrom 0, < 3.2.0~rc.1-1
RubyGems/rubygems-updatefrom 0, < 2.6.13

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	CRITICAL9.8	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References (17)

ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-0899
ADVISORYhttps://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-0899
ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-0899
PATCHhttps://github.com/rubygems/rubygems
WEBhttp://blog.rubygems.org/2017/08/27/2.6.13-released.html
WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3485
WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0378
WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0583
WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0585
WEBhttps://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/commit/1bcbc7fe637b03145401ec9c094066285934a7f1
WEBhttps://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/commit/ef0aa611effb5f54d40c7fba6e8235eb43c5a491
WEBhttps://hackerone.com/reports/226335
WEBhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00012.html
WEBhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-01
WEBhttps://web.archive.org/web/20170907215801/http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039249
WEBhttps://web.archive.org/web/20170915000000*/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100576#:~:text=1%20snapshot-,11%3A49%3A33,-Note
WEBhttps://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3966