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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
8.8
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2014-9489

GHSA ID

GHSA-q97v-764g-r2rp

Source code

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