GHSA-QRQM-FPV6-6R8G

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2021-02-02 18:50 – Updated: 2022-04-27 20:24
VLAI
Summary
Command Injection Vulnerability in Mechanize
Details

This security advisory has been created for public disclosure of a Command Injection vulnerability that was responsibly reported by @kyoshidajp (Katsuhiko YOSHIDA).

Impact

Mechanize >= v2.0, < v2.7.7 allows for OS commands to be injected using several classes' methods which implicitly use Ruby's Kernel.open method. Exploitation is possible only if untrusted input is used as a local filename and passed to any of these calls:

  • Mechanize::CookieJar#load: since v2.0 (see 208e3ed)
  • Mechanize::CookieJar#save_as: since v2.0 (see 5b776a4)
  • Mechanize#download: since v2.2 (see dc91667)
  • Mechanize::Download#save and #save! since v2.1 (see 98b2f51, bd62ff0)
  • Mechanize::File#save and #save_as: since v2.1 (see 2bf7519)
  • Mechanize::FileResponse#read_body: since v2.0 (see 01039f5)

Patches

These vulnerabilities are patched in Mechanize v2.7.7.

Workarounds

No workarounds are available. We recommend upgrading to v2.7.7 or later.

References

See https://docs.rubocop.org/rubocop/cops_security.html#securityopen for background on why Kernel.open should not be used with untrusted input.

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, please open an issue in sparklemotion/mechanize.

Severity
7.4 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
Show details on source website
To clipboard 

{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "RubyGems",
        "name": "mechanize"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "2.0.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "2.7.7"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2021-21289"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-78"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2021-02-02T18:50:15Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2021-02-02T19:15:00Z",
    "severity": "HIGH"
  },
  "details": "This security advisory has been created for public disclosure of a Command Injection vulnerability that was responsibly reported by @kyoshidajp (Katsuhiko YOSHIDA).\n\n### Impact\n\nMechanize `\u003e= v2.0`, `\u003c v2.7.7` allows for OS commands to be injected using several classes\u0027 methods which implicitly use Ruby\u0027s `Kernel.open` method. Exploitation is possible only if untrusted input is used as a local filename and passed to any of these calls:\n\n- `Mechanize::CookieJar#load`: since v2.0 (see 208e3ed)\n- `Mechanize::CookieJar#save_as`: since v2.0 (see 5b776a4)\n- `Mechanize#download`: since v2.2 (see dc91667)\n- `Mechanize::Download#save` and `#save!` since v2.1 (see 98b2f51, bd62ff0)\n- `Mechanize::File#save` and `#save_as`: since v2.1 (see 2bf7519)\n- `Mechanize::FileResponse#read_body`: since v2.0 (see 01039f5)\n\n\n### Patches\n\nThese vulnerabilities are patched in Mechanize v2.7.7.\n\n\n### Workarounds\n\nNo workarounds are available. We recommend upgrading to v2.7.7 or later.\n\n\n### References\n\nSee https://docs.rubocop.org/rubocop/cops_security.html#securityopen for background on why `Kernel.open` should not be used with untrusted input.\n\n\n### For more information\n\nIf you have any questions or comments about this advisory, please open an issue in [sparklemotion/mechanize](https://github.com/sparklemotion/mechanize/issues/new).",
  "id": "GHSA-qrqm-fpv6-6r8g",
  "modified": "2022-04-27T20:24:21Z",
  "published": "2021-02-02T18:50:27Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/sparklemotion/mechanize/security/advisories/GHSA-qrqm-fpv6-6r8g"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-21289"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/sparklemotion/mechanize/commit/66a6a1bfa653a5f13274a396a5e5441238656aa0"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/mechanize/CVE-2021-21289.yml"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://github.com/sparklemotion/mechanize"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/sparklemotion/mechanize/releases/tag/v2.7.7"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00021.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LBVVJUL4P4KCJH4IQTHFZ4ATXY7XXZPV"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YNFZ7ROYS6V4J5L5PRAJUG2AWC7VXR2V"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://rubygems.org/gems/mechanize"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-17"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "Command Injection Vulnerability in Mechanize"
}



Log in or create an account to share your comment.




Tags
Taxonomy of the tags.




Drag nodes to arrange them. Double-click a related vulnerability to open it, or a source to visit its link. The Physics button on the left tunes the layout and the simulation; the legend at the bottom left hides or shows nodes by kind and by sighting type.

Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

Sightings

Author Source Type Date Other

Nomenclature

  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
  • Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
  • Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Vulnerability timeline

Sightings and recorded dates, grouped by day · UTC

JSON
How durations are calculated

Following the VTEM framework (Black Hat USA 2015), time to patch starts when the vendor or a coordinator was informed, total time to patch at discovery, and disclosure to patch at public disclosure; vendor response time runs from the report to its acknowledgement. Time to exploit and time unpatched start at the earliest discovery or report, falling back to public disclosure. Unpatched time ends at the first recorded patch, or the calculation time when no patch is recorded. Exploitation to patch shows the interval between those two events; a published proof of concept is a public exploit, not exploitation.

Each result shows its source dates. A negative interval means the end event came first; when date-only inputs leave the order open, the result says so. Date-only inputs are approximate. The earliest evidence wins: KEV report dates and sightings are labelled as such. Records describing another vulnerability are listed but never calculated from, and a PoC alone does not establish exploitation. Missing patch evidence does not prove that no patch exists. Filters below change the event list only.

Loading timeline…




    Related by attack behaviour

    Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.