CVE-2019-13589

CRITICAL9.8EPSS 6.1%

paranoid2 gem Code backdoor

Published: 7/16/2019Modified: 3/13/2026

Description

The paranoid2 gem 1.1.6 for Ruby, as distributed on RubyGems.org, included a code-execution backdoor inserted by a third party. The current version, without this backdoor, is 1.1.5.

Affected packages (1)

RubyGems/paranoid2

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 (7)

ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-13589
PATCHhttps://github.com/anjlab/paranoid2
WEBhttps://github.com/rubygems/rubygems.org/issues/2051
WEBhttps://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/paranoid2/CVE-2019-13589.yml
WEBhttps://rubygems.org/gems/paranoid2/versions
WEBhttps://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-RUBY-PARANOID2-451600
WEBhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/109281