CVE-2019-16255

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-16255
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-16255.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2019-16255
Downstream
Related
Published
2019-11-26T18:15:15.303Z
Modified
2026-05-28T04:04:54.449006914Z
Severity
  • 8.1 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Ruby through 2.4.7, 2.5.x through 2.5.6, and 2.6.x through 2.6.4 allows code injection if the first argument (aka the "command" argument) to Shell#[] or Shell#test in lib/shell.rb is untrusted data. An attacker can exploit this to call an arbitrary Ruby method.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux",
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "9.0"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "opensuse:leap",
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "15.1"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/graalvm/graalvm-ce-builds

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/graalvm/graalvm-ce-builds
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
e57b8d283fb4de49639b22adcb9aad31baaa6352
Database specific 
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "19.3.0.2"
        }
    ],
    "source": "CPE_STRING",
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:oracle:graalvm:19.3.0.2:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*"
}

Affected versions

vm-19.*
vm-19.3.0
vm-19.3.0.2

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-16255.json"

Git / github.com/ruby/ruby

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/ruby/ruby
Events
Introduced
d4bb726b713658f56e630b6cf817a0155b6f390e
Last affected
c91478058505cd8cae5160c1056bcde65af5a78b
Introduced
4e0a512972cdcbfcd5279f1a2a81ba342ed75b6e
Last affected
189a36cfabfc30e785cece0692c802be87ebd9cf
Introduced
c1af7b1e1d408f9796a5f46c9ed36bc5adea4aa2
Last affected
6315e42c222d5484004494950c7524a85acadb20
Database specific 
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "2.4.0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.4.7"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "2.5.0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.5.6"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "2.6.0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.6.4"
        }
    ],
    "source": "CPE_RANGE",
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-16255.json"