CVE-2019-15224

Description

The rest-client gem 1.6.10 through 1.6.13 for Ruby, as distributed on RubyGems.org, included a code-execution backdoor inserted by a third party. Users of an affected version should consider downgrading to the last non-affected version of 1.6.9, or upgrading to 1.7.x. Additionally, a set of other minor gems have been partially or completely yanked and are included in this advisory. These include cron_parser, coin_base, blockchain_wallet, awesome-bot, doge-coin, capistrano-colors, bitcoin_vanity, lita_coin, coming-soon, and omniauth_amazon.

Affected packages (10)

• RubyGems/awesome-botfrom 0
• RubyGems/bitcoin_vanityfrom 0
• RubyGems/blockchain_walletfrom 0
• RubyGems/capistrano-colorsfrom 0
• RubyGems/coin_basefrom 0
• RubyGems/coming-soonfrom 0
• RubyGems/cron_parser>= 1.0.13, <= 1.0.14
• RubyGems/doge-coinfrom 0
• RubyGems/omniauth_amazonfrom 0
• RubyGems/rest-client>= 1.6.10, < 1.7.0

CVSS scores

References (10)

• ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-15224
• WEBhttps://github.com/rest-client/rest-client/issues/713
• WEBhttps://github.com/rubygems/rubygems.org/issues/2097
• WEBhttps://github.com/rubygems/rubygems.org/wiki/Gems-yanked-and-accounts-locked#19-aug-2019
• WEBhttps://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/blockchain_wallet/CVE-2019-15224.yml
• WEBhttps://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/coin_base/CVE-2019-15224.yml
• WEBhttps://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/doge-coin/CVE-2019-15224.yml
• WEBhttps://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/lita_coin/CVE-2019-15224.yml
• WEBhttps://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/omniauth_amazon/CVE-2019-15224.yml
• WEBhttps://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rest-client/CVE-2019-15224.yml