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Arabic Prawn allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Oct 24, 2017 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Nov 5, 2023

Package

bundler arabic-prawn (RubyGems)

Affected versions

<= 0.0.1

Patched versions

None

Description

lib/string_utf_support.rb in the Arabic Prawn 0.0.1 gem for Ruby allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the (1) downloaded_file or (2) url variable.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database May 2, 2014
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Oct 24, 2017
Reviewed Jun 16, 2020
Last updated Nov 5, 2023

Severity

High

Weaknesses

No CWEs

CVE ID

CVE-2014-2322

GHSA ID

GHSA-hgmw-x865-hf9x

Source code

Credits

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