CVE-2024-27281: RCE vulnerability with .rdoc_options in RDoc We have released the RDoc gem version 6.3.4.1, 6.4.1.1, 6.5.1.1 and 6.6.3.1 that have a security fix for a RCE vulnerability. This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-27281. Details An issue was discovered in RDoc 6.3.3 through 6.6.2, as distributed in Ruby 3.x through 3.3.0. When parsing .rdoc_options (used for configuration in RDoc) as a YAML file, object injection and resultant remote code execution are possible because there are no restrictions on the classes that can be restored. When loading the documentation cache, object injection and resultant remote code execution are also possible if there were a crafted cache.
