vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2019-16255: jruby -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Nov 27, 2019
Added
Nov 27, 2019
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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.

Solution

debian-upgrade-jruby
Title
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