CVE-2019-16255
HIGH
8.1
CVSS Score
Published: November 26, 2019 at 12:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 02:22 AM UTC
4 products affected across 4 vendorsDebian LinuxLeapGraalVM
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Severity
HIGH8.1
Exploit prediction
EPSS 4%
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
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Debian Linux· Debiandrupal
95%Leap· openSUSEdrupal
95%Ruby· Ruby Langrubygems
95%2.4.0 ≤ v ≤ 2.4.72.5.0 ≤ v ≤ 2.5.62.6.0 ≤ v ≤ 2.6.4
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (15)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSEThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00041.htmlMailing Listx_refsource_MLISTThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/11/msg00025.htmlMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00009.htmlMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00027.htmlMailing Listx_refsource_BUGTRAQBroken LinkThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/31Mailing Listx_refsource_BUGTRAQBroken LinkThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/32CVSS
- Attack Vector
- NETWORK
- Complexity
- HIGH
- Privileges
- NONE
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- HIGH
- Integrity
- HIGH
- Availability
- HIGH
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-94
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