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gollum and gollum-lib allow remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Nov 16, 2017 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Nov 10, 2023

Package

bundler gollum (RubyGems)

Affected versions

< 3.1.1

Patched versions

3.1.1
bundler gollum-lib (RubyGems)
< 4.0.1
4.0.1

Description

The gollum-grit_adapter Ruby gem dependency in gollum before 3.1.1 and the gollum-lib gem dependency in gollum-lib before 4.0.1 when the string master is in any of the wiki documents, allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via the -O or --open-files-in-pager flags.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Oct 17, 2017
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Nov 16, 2017
Reviewed Jun 16, 2020
Last updated Nov 10, 2023

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS score

0.471%
(76th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2014-9489

GHSA ID

GHSA-q97v-764g-r2rp

Source code

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