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Alpine Linux: CVE-2019-8322: Escape sequence injection vulnerability in gem owner

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2019-8322: Escape sequence injection vulnerability in gem owner

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
04/18/2019
Created
05/08/2019
Added
05/07/2019
Modified
12/27/2019

Description

An issue was discovered in RubyGems 2.6 and later through 3.0.2. The gem owner command outputs the contents of the API response directly to stdout. Therefore, if the response is crafted, escape sequence injection may occur.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-ruby

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