CVE-2023-28102 (GCVE-0-2023-28102)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-03-27 21:23 – Updated: 2025-02-19 15:52
VLAI
Title
Command injection in discordrb
Summary
discordrb is an implementation of the Discord API using Ruby. In discordrb before commit `91e13043ffa` the `encoder.rb` file unsafely constructs a shell string using the file parameter, which can potentially leave clients of discordrb vulnerable to command injection. The library is not directly exploitable: the exploit requires that some client of the library calls the vulnerable method with user input. However, if unsafe input reaches the library method, then an attacker can execute arbitrary shell commands on the host machine. Full impact will depend on the permissions of the process running the `discordrb` library and will likely not be total system access. This issue has been addressed in code, but a new release of the `discordrb` gem has not been uploaded to rubygems. This issue is also tracked as `GHSL-2022-094`.
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-02-19 15:51 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-78 - Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')
Assigner
GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7803 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
shardlab discordrb Affected: <= 3.4.1
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