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Possible shell escape sequence injection vulnerability in Rack

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 27, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Dec 17, 2023

Package

bundler rack (RubyGems)

Affected versions

<= 2.0.9.0
>= 2.1, <= 2.1.4.0
>= 2.2, <= 2.2.3.0

Patched versions

2.0.9.1
2.1.4.1
2.2.3.1

Description

There is a possible shell escape sequence injection vulnerability in the Lint
and CommonLogger components of Rack. This vulnerability has been assigned the
CVE identifier CVE-2022-30123.

Versions Affected: All.
Not affected: None
Fixed Versions: 2.0.9.1, 2.1.4.1, 2.2.3.1

Impact

Carefully crafted requests can cause shell escape sequences to be written to
the terminal via Rack's Lint middleware and CommonLogger middleware. These
escape sequences can be leveraged to possibly execute commands in the victim's
terminal.

Impacted applications will have either of these middleware installed, and
vulnerable apps may have something like this:

use Rack::Lint

Or

use Rack::CommonLogger

All users running an affected release should either upgrade or use one of the
workarounds immediately.

Workarounds

Remove these middleware from your application

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 27, 2022
Reviewed May 27, 2022
Published by the National Vulnerability Database Dec 5, 2022
Last updated Dec 17, 2023

Severity

Critical

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS score

0.560%
(78th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2022-30123

GHSA ID

GHSA-wq4h-7r42-5hrr

Source code

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