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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2021-21289: Mechanize: Command injection

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2021-21289: Mechanize: Command injection

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
02/02/2021
Created
07/10/2021
Added
07/09/2021
Modified
07/09/2021

Description

Mechanize is an open-source ruby library that makes automated web interaction easy. In Mechanize from version 2.0.0 and before version 2.7.7 there is a command injection vulnerability. Affected versions of mechanize allow for OS commands to be injected using several classes' methods which implicitly use Ruby's Kernel.open method. Exploitation is possible only if untrusted input is used as a local filename and passed to any of these calls: Mechanize::CookieJar#load, Mechanize::CookieJar#save_as, Mechanize#download, Mechanize::Download#save, Mechanize::File#save, and Mechanize::FileResponse#read_body. This is fixed in version 2.7.7.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-ruby-mechanize

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