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CVE-2013-4457 (cocaine): Cocaine Gem for Ruby contains a flaw

ADVISORIES

GEM

cocaine

SEVERITY

CVSS v2.0: 6.8 (Medium)

UNAFFECTED VERSIONS

  • < 0.4.0

PATCHED VERSIONS

  • >= 0.5.3

DESCRIPTION

Cocaine Gem for Ruby contains a flaw that is due to the method of variable interpolation used by the program. With a specially crafted object, a context-dependent attacker can execute arbitrary commands.