vulnerability

Oracle Linux: CVE-2021-31799: ELSA-2021-3020: ruby:2.7 security update (IMPORTANT) (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
May 2, 2021
Added
Aug 7, 2021
Modified
Dec 3, 2025

Description

In RDoc 3.11 through 6.x before 6.3.1, as distributed with Ruby through 3.0.1, it is possible to execute arbitrary code via | and tags in a filename.
An operating system command injection flaw was found in RDoc. Using the rdoc command to generate documentation for a malicious Ruby source code could lead to execution of arbitrary commands with the privileges of the user running rdoc.

Solutions

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