Security advisory

{
  "id": "4437bf53e4827d68b9984f0d70bc2cbea5c2733e1c83889eabd15e0babb7e917",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-8324",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2019-8324",
    "summary": "An issue was discovered in RubyGems 2.6 and later through 3.0.2. A crafted gem with a multi-line name is not handled correctly. Therefore, an attacker could inject arbitrary code to the stub line of gemspec, which is eval-ed by code in ensure_loadable_spec during the preinstall check.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2019-8324",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2019-8324",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2019-8324",
        "GHSA-76wm-422q-92mq"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/ruby/rubygems",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "4bfc34cb00f3be715d811bf9106e01a4893fbf92"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "d5ddf07a88a89c34339b268533de594990f7170b"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:rubygems:rubygems:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "2.6.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "3.0.2"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "v3.0.2",
            "v3.0.1",
            "v3.0.0",
            "v3.0.0.beta3",
            "v3.0.0.beta1",
            "v2.7.3",
            "v2.7.2",
            "v2.7.0",
            "v2.7.1",
            "v2.6.6",
            "v2.6.5",
            "v2.6.3",
            "v2.6.4",
            "v2.6.2",
            "v2.6.1",
            "v2.6.0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-8324.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:37.948546467Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1972",
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00027.html",
        "https://hackerone.com/reports/328571"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "9.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "9.0"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
              "cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "opensuse:leap",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "15.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "15.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "introduced": "15.1"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "15.1"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "redhat:enterprise_linux",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "8.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "8.0"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2019-8324",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 434345,
  "published_at": "2019-06-17T19:15:11.843+00:00"
}