RubyGems version 2.6.12 and earlier is vulnerable to maliciously crafted gem specifications that include terminal escape characters. Printing the gem specification would execute terminal escape sequences.
Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1114-1 ruby1.9.1 security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1421-1 ruby2.1 security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3966-1 ruby2.3 security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-2994 RubyGems version 2.6.12 and earlier is vulnerable to maliciously crafted gem specifications that include terminal escape characters. Printing the gem specification would execute terminal escape sequences.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-7gcp-2gmq-w3xh RubyGems Code Injection vulnerability
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3439-1 Ruby vulnerabilities
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History

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.11571}

epss

{'score': 0.09672}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: hackerone

Published:

Updated: 2024-09-17T02:20:54.846Z

Reserved: 2016-11-30T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-0899

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-08-31T20:29:00.417

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-0899

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2017-08-31T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-0899 - Bugzilla

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