CVE-2019-16255
HIGH8.1EPSS 1.2%Published: 11/26/2019Modified: 12/3/2025
Also known as:ALPINE-CVE-2019-16255DEBIAN-CVE-2019-16255
Description
Ruby through 2.4.7, 2.5.x through 2.5.6, and 2.6.x through 2.6.4 allows code injection if the first argument (aka the "command" argument) to Shell#[] or Shell#test in lib/shell.rb is untrusted data. An attacker can exploit this to call an arbitrary Ruby method.
Affected packages (2)
- Alpine/rubyfrom 0, < 2.5.7-r0
- Debian/jrubyfrom 0, < 9.3.9.0+ds-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH8.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |