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Vulnerability details: VCID-55ab-2wkt-dfcy
Vulnerability ID VCID-55ab-2wkt-dfcy
Aliases CVE-2019-8324
GHSA-76wm-422q-92mq
Summary An issue was discovered in RubyGems 2.6 and later through 3.0.2. A crafted gem with a multi-line name is not handled correctly. Therefore, an attacker could inject arbitrary code to the stub line of gemspec, which is eval-ed by code in ensure_loadable_spec during the preinstall check.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 8.0
Risk 4.0
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (4)
CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
CWE-20 Improper Input Validation
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
System Score Found at
cvssv3.1 8.8 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00036.html
generic_textual HIGH http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00036.html
cvssv3.1 8.8 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1972
generic_textual HIGH https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1972
cvssv3 7.2 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2019-8324.json
epss 0.00511 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-8324
epss 0.00511 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-8324
epss 0.00511 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-8324
epss 0.00511 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-8324
epss 0.00511 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-8324
epss 0.00511 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-8324
epss 0.00511 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-8324
epss 0.00511 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-8324
cvssv3 8.8 https://blog.rubygems.org/2019/03/05/security-advisories-2019-03.html
cvssv3.1 8.8 https://blog.rubygems.org/2019/03/05/security-advisories-2019-03.html
generic_textual HIGH https://blog.rubygems.org/2019/03/05/security-advisories-2019-03.html
cvssv3 7.8 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv3.1_qr HIGH https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-76wm-422q-92mq
cvssv3.1 8.8 https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rubygems-update/CVE-2019-8324.yml
generic_textual HIGH https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rubygems-update/CVE-2019-8324.yml
cvssv3.1 8.8 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00027.html
generic_textual HIGH https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00027.html
cvssv2 6.8 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-8324
cvssv3.1 8.8 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-8324
generic_textual HIGH https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-8324
Reference id Reference type URL
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00036.html
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1972
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2019-8324.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-8324
https://blog.rubygems.org/2019/03/05/security-advisories-2019-03.html
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-8320
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-8321
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-8322
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-8323
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-8324
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-8325
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rubygems-update/CVE-2019-8324.yml
https://hackerone.com/reports/328571
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00027.html
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-8324
1692520 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1692520
925987 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=925987
cpe:2.3:a:rubygems:rubygems:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:rubygems:rubygems:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
GHSA-76wm-422q-92mq https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-76wm-422q-92mq
RHSA-2019:1148 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1148
RHSA-2019:1150 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1150
RHSA-2019:1151 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1151
RHSA-2019:1235 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1235
RHSA-2020:2769 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:2769
USN-3945-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3945-1/
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00036.html
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1972
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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2019-8324.json
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://blog.rubygems.org/2019/03/05/security-advisories-2019-03.html
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rubygems-update/CVE-2019-8324.yml
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00027.html
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-8324
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-8324
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Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.65405
EPSS Score 0.00511
Published At June 30, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2025-07-01T12:16:33.308949+00:00 Ubuntu USN Importer Import https://usn.ubuntu.com/3945-1/ 36.1.3