pludoni/simple-captcha · Security
Code backdoor in simple_captcha2
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-wg6j-r28m-7293
- CVE ID
- CVE-2019-14282
- Severity
- critical
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 9.8 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 9.8 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
The simple_captcha2 gem 0.2.3 for Ruby, as distributed on RubyGems.org, included a code-execution backdoor inserted by a third party.
CWEs
- CWE-94 · Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-14282 ↗
- https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems.org/issues/2073 ↗
- https://rubygems.org/gems/simple_captcha2/versions/ ↗
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-RUBY-SIMPLECAPTCHA2-455501 ↗
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/simple_captcha2/CVE-2019-14282.yml ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wg6j-r28m-7293 ↗