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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2021-02-02T18:50:13

Updated: 2024-08-03T18:09:15.157Z

Reserved: 2020-12-22T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-21289

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Status : Modified

Published: 2021-02-02T19:15:14.220

Modified: 2023-11-07T03:29:43.413

Link: CVE-2021-21289

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Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2021-02-01T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-21289 - Bugzilla