vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-17405: OS Command Injection

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Dec 15, 2017
Added
Feb 26, 2019
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

Ruby before 2.4.3 allows Net::FTP command injection. Net::FTP#get, getbinaryfile, gettextfile, put, putbinaryfile, and puttextfile use Kernel#open to open a local file. If the localfile argument starts with the "|" pipe character, the command following the pipe character is executed. The default value of localfile is File.basename(remotefile), so malicious FTP servers could cause arbitrary command execution.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-ruby
Title
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