Bug 768609 (CVE-2021-21289)

Summary:	<dev-ruby/mechanize-2.7.7: command injection vulnerability (CVE-2021-21289)
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	John Helmert III <ajak>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	major	CC:	ruby
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://github.com/sparklemotion/mechanize/security/advisories/GHSA-qrqm-fpv6-6r8g
Whiteboard:	B1 [glsa+ cve]
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description John Helmert III archtester

2021-02-04 02:48:04 UTC

CVE-2021-21289:

Mechanize is an open-source ruby library that makes automated web interaction easy. In Mechanize from version 2.0.0 and before version 2.7.7 there is a command injection vulnerability. Affected versions of mechanize allow 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, Mechanize::CookieJar#save_as, Mechanize#download, Mechanize::Download#save, Mechanize::File#save, and Mechanize::FileResponse#read_body. This is fixed in version 2.7.7.


Please stabilize mechanize-2.7.7.

Comment 1 Hans de Graaff gentoo-dev

2021-02-04 05:56:45 UTC

amd64 stable and cleanup done.

Comment 2 John Helmert III archtester

2021-02-04 14:50:14 UTC

Thanks!

Comment 3 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2021-05-31 21:53:44 UTC

New GLSA request filed.

Comment 4 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev

2021-07-08 03:41:33 UTC

This issue was resolved and addressed in
 GLSA 202107-17 at https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-17
by GLSA coordinator John Helmert III (ajak).