trunk.cocoapods.org is the authentication server for the CoacoaPods dependency manager. The part of trunk which verifies whether a user has a real email address on signup used a rfc-822 library which executes a shell command to validate the email domain MX records validity. It works via an DNS MX. This lookup could be manipulated to also execute a command on the trunk server, effectively giving root access to the server and the infrastructure. This issue was patched server-side with commit 001cc3a430e75a16307f5fd6cdff1363ad2f40f3 in September 2023. This RCE triggered a full user-session reset, as an attacker could have used this method to write to any Podspec in trunk.
History

Wed, 18 Sep 2024 15:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Cocoapods trunk.cocoapods.org
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:cocoapods:trunk.cocoapods.org:*:*:*:*:ruby:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Cocoapods trunk.cocoapods.org

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2024-07-01T20:42:38.281Z

Updated: 2024-08-02T04:04:25.256Z

Reserved: 2024-06-14T14:16:16.466Z

Link: CVE-2024-38366

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-07-02T15:18:28.511Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-07-01T21:15:03.797

Modified: 2024-09-18T15:22:55.753

Link: CVE-2024-38366

cve-icon Redhat

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