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CVE-2013-2616 (mini_magick): MiniMagick Gem for Ruby URI Handling Arbitrary Command Injection

MiniMagick Gem for Ruby URI Handling Arbitrary Command Injection

Published: March 12, 2013

SECURITY IDENTIFIERS

GEM

mini_magick

SEVERITY

CVSS v2.0: 9.3 (High)

PATCHED VERSIONS

>= 3.6.0

DESCRIPTION

MiniMagick Gem for Ruby contains a flaw that is triggered during the handling of specially crafted input from an untrusted source passed via a URL that contains a ';' character. This may allow a context-dependent attacker to potentially execute arbitrary commands.