CVE-2007-0469 RubyGems: Specially-crafted Gem archive can overwrite system files
Published: January 22, 2007
SECURITY IDENTIFIERS
- CVE: CVE-2007-0469 (NVD)
- GHSA: GHSA-95vx-q4c2-64gr
- OSVDB: OSVDB-33561
GEM
LIBRARY
SEVERITY
CVSS v2.0: 9.3 (High)
PATCHED VERSIONS
>= 0.9.1
DESCRIPTION
The extract_files function in installer.rb in RubyGems before 0.9.1 does not check whether files exist before overwriting them, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files, cause a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code via crafted GEM packages.