An issue was discovered in RubyGems 2.6 and later through 3.0.2. A crafted gem with a multi-line name is not handled correctly. Therefore, an attacker could inject arbitrary code to the stub line of gemspec, which is eval-ed by code in ensureloadablespec during the preinstall check.
{
"unresolved_ranges": [
{
"cpes": [
"cpe:2.3:a:rubygems:rubygems:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
],
"vendor_product": "rubygems:rubygems",
"extracted_events": [
{
"introduced": "2.6.0"
},
{
"last_affected": "3.0.2"
}
],
"source": "CPE_RANGE"
},
{
"cpes": [
"cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
],
"vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux",
"extracted_events": [
{
"last_affected": "9.0"
}
],
"source": "CPE_STRING"
},
{
"cpes": [
"cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
],
"vendor_product": "opensuse:leap",
"extracted_events": [
{
"last_affected": "15.0"
},
{
"last_affected": "15.1"
}
],
"source": "CPE_STRING"
},
{
"cpes": [
"cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
],
"vendor_product": "redhat:enterprise_linux",
"extracted_events": [
{
"last_affected": "8.0"
}
],
"source": "CPE_STRING"
}
]
}